KARACHI: Karachi-based retailers increased on Wednesday the price of onion to Rs100-120 per kilogram from Rs80 a day ago...
Its retail price started rising from Rs30 per kg about 10 days before Eidul Azha...
KARACHI: The retail price of onion has come down to Rs70 per kg, following a drop in its wholesale price to Rs40-50 per kg in last few days...
After frequently crawling up from Rs30 per kg initially, 10 days before Eidul Azha, onion’s retail price had shot up to Rs 120 per kg last week in Karachi and other parts of the country...
NEW DELHI: A leap in onion prices has left a bitter taste for Surinder Anand, owner of a New Delhi restaurant that sweats its way through a hundred kilos a day, but it could pose even bigger problems for India’s leader...
“It’s impossible to cook without onion, and we can’t increase the cost of our dishes or customers won’t come, so it all comes out of our pockets,” Anand said...
ONION prices have skyrocketed before Eid-ul-Azha in anticipation of high demand and also owing to export orders from India...
Till September 15, the price of onion ranged between Rs50-60 per kg in Karachi’s retail markets and was even higher in Islamabad and in cities of Punjab, according to media reports...
KARACHI: Prices of onions, tomatoes and chicken have seen sharp increases, especially during Eidul Azha, as sellers continue to charge consumers at whim amid lack of monitoring by the price regulator...
Onion was selling for around Rs60-80 per kg on Monday compared to Rs50 ahead of Eid, while tomato was sold at up to Rs120 per kg...
DHAKA: Bangladesh is urgently importing onions by air as the price of the essential ingredient in local dishes soared to record highs, an official said on Sunday, with even the prime minister chopping the bulb from her menu...
The price of onions — a sensitive subject in South Asia where shortages can trigger widespread discontent with political ramifications — has climbed to eye-watering levels in Bangladesh since neighbouring India...
KARACHI: Retailers have kept the prices of tomato high despite its import from Iran which resulted in a big drop in its wholesale price ahead of Ashura...
The wholesale price of tomato showed fluctuating trends during the last few days...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has taken serious notice of skyrocketing prices of tomato, onion and other vegetables and directed the agriculture department to intervene to control the prices by reducing the role of middleman...
He also ordered commissioners and deputy commissioners to arrest profiteers and hoarders who created an artificial price hike of tomato and vegetables...
MUMBAI: India set a minimum price of $850 per tonne for overseas sale of onions, a government order said on Thursday, as the price of the politically-sensitive vegetable surged to its highest in two years in the local market...
Average prices at Lasalgaon, India’s largest wholesale onion market in the western state of Maharashtra, rose to 3,211 rupees ($49...
KARACHI: Imports of tomato and onion from Iran and Afghanistan by road without any quarantine check continue unabated which pose serious health threats to consumers, who on the other hand, find no relief from the high prices of onion despite the arrival of Sindh crop some 15 days ago...
Retailers said major traders at the main vegetable market off Superhighway were releasing Sindh crop slowly as they were trying to clear Iranian and...
Consumers continued to pay Rs70-80 per kg for onion while tomato price which was prevailing at Rs200 per kg on Tuesday crawled down to Rs160 much before Wednesday’s meeting of the CM with the officials concerned...
Consumers are currently getting onions from Balochistan, Iran and KazakhstanThe vice chairman of the Market Committee Karachi Division, Asif Ahmed, claimed tomato price in retail markets, including superstores and posh...
KARACHI: Import of onion is the only way to control any further jump in prices as Balochistan’s stock of the commodity has almost exhausted and the Sindh’s crop will hit the market by mid-October, sources said on Tuesday...
In the past two weeks, onion prices have more than doubled — from Rs30 per kg to Rs80 per kg — due to an increase in demand as Eidul Azha neared and heavy rains hampered supplies from Balochistan to Karachi...
KARACHI: Onion prices have risen to Rs50-60 per kg from Rs25-30 some two weeks ago, while potatoes are selling at recored low prices...
Traders say onion prices may remain under pressure during the next month as well...
KARACHI: After the onion crisis, consumers now have to brave high prices of tomato which is available for Rs160 per kg in the retail market as price regulators watch helplessly from the sidelines...
Consumers complained that tomato’s high price is not justifiable keeping in view its substandard quality and small size...
SOME new varieties of onion have been developed and introduced in remote parts of northern areas with the support of a foreign development agency under a project aimed at making local farmers self-sufficient in crop production...
The Livelihood Project Hindukash (LPH) launched in Talash Valley of Lower Dir by a Swiss development agency is a public-private partnership between a global onion seed company and a local farmers group called...