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Onions by protestors on Mumbai-Nagpur highway

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, May 20 (UNI) Onion producers farmers led by Shetkari Annadata Organisation (SAO) held an agitation by throwing onions on Mumbai-Nagpur highway at Lasur station yesterday.
Jayaji Suryawanshi president of SAO said a number of farmers brought onion gunny bags at Savangi chowk near Lasur station on Nagpur-Mumbai highways and threw onion on the highway.
A large number of farmers cultivated onion production this year in the districts and presently farmers are getting very less rates in Agriculture Products Market Committee (APMC) which is less than their production cost and they were found in distress condition, he said.
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