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1,800 kg onions stolen in Nashik

August 25, 2015 07:13 am | Updated May 27, 2016 09:42 pm IST - MUMBAI:

Shubhomoy Sikdar
BANGALORE, 29/09/2013: Onion being sold for Rs. 84 per kg at K.R. Market, even as prices crash down in the growing areas across North Karnataka region, following protests by Onion growing farmers, in Bangalore on September 29, 2013. Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BANGALORE, 29/09/2013: Onion being sold for Rs. 84 per kg at K.R. Market, even as prices crash down in the growing areas across North Karnataka region, following protests by Onion growing farmers, in Bangalore on September 29, 2013. Photo: K. Murali Kumar

Two days after nearly 700 kg of onions were stolen from a Mumbai market, another theft was reported from Nashik in north Maharashtra where unidentified persons allegedly made off with 1,800 kg of the vegetable.

Aabasaheb Pawar, a farmer from Pimparkhed village had brought close to 40 quintals of onions from him farm and kept it at a storehouse close to the the Nandgaon wholesale market.

Later, he found about 18 quintals missing from the storehouse and reported the matter to the police on Sunday.

Going by the current wholesale price of onions of Rs. 58 per kg, the estimated loss is close to Rs. 1 lakh. The farmer was banking on the sale of onions to repay his debt said to be around Rs. 2.5 lakh.

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