Updated On: 29 January, 2020 07:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
However, as the supply started to improve at the end of 2019 and start of 2020, traders lost interest in the imported onions

Rajpal Hande, the accused
There is a slow stink rising at the freight stations at Navi Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust with more than 7,000 tonnes of imported onions rotting there for over a month.
As the prices of onions have plumetted in the local market, importers do not seem too keen on clearing these consignments as the landed cost of these onions is much higher, Business Line reported