Solapur Farmer earns Rs 2.49 profit on sale of 512 kg onions

Pune: When a farmer from Solapur, Maharashtra, known that he had sold his 512 kg of onions to a trader in the district for just Rs 2.49, he received a rude shock.

According to the farmer, 63-year-old Rajendra Chavan, who lives in Solapur's Barshi tehsil, his onion yield sold for Rs 1 per kg at the Solapur market yard, and he received this pitiful sum as his net profit last week after all deductions were made.

Chavan stated, "I had sent an onion trader in Solapur for sale ten bags of onions weighing more than five



quintals." However, after deducting costs associated with labor, transportation, loading, and other elements, I only made a net profit of Rs 2.49 from him. I was offered a rate of Rs 100 per quintal by the trader. He stated that he received Rs 512 for the crop, which had a total weight of 512 kilograms.

"I received a net profit of Rs 2.49 after deducting labor, weighing, transportation, and other costs in the amount of Rs 509.51. I and other state onion farmers are insulted by this. How will we survive if we get such returns? He pressed.