Onions are making people cry quite literally, as prices are skyrocketing across the country! It costs about Rs 100 per kg at the moment, and there's a good chance, it may soon touch a new high of Rs 150 per kg, according to traders and analysts.
In most of the markets, it is being sold at Rs 110-130 per kg. "At Nasik, the highest wholesale rate was Rs 5,400/40 per kg, which translates to Rs 135 a kg," Agri analyst Sibu Malakar said.?
The onion price hike has turned this common cooking ingredient into a luxury item for everyone. After the memes on onion prices, a photo of an unguarded sack of onions lying outside a Mumbai restaurant went viral on social media.
Picture Courtesy: IANS
Popular Mumbai photographer and blogger, Gopal MS, who clicks pictures and documents the day-to-day life in the city, found it remarkable that the sack of onion was kept outside the restaurant without anyone guarding it.
The photo was shared on his Twitter account, with the caption ¡®Believe it or not. Is this is how safe Mumbai is? A sack of onions placed outside a restaurant to be picked up when it opens¡¯. The picture showed a sack of onions kept outside a hotel near Sewri Railway Station.?
Here¡¯s the picture:
The picture garnered many responses with people commenting that nobody wants to mess with Delhi people (after reading the name of the restaurant). Some commented that they were sad to see that onions and cows were safe in this country, but women were still unsafe, following the Hyderabad gang rape case of the 27-year-old veterinary doctor.?
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Recently, thieves in West Bengal reportedly stole onions worth Rs 50,000, but didn¡¯t touch the cashbox which shows that people should now protect onions like they protect jewellery and cash.?