Onion price down at long last! Sambar relishers delighted!!
Posted on: 28/Jan/2020 4:20:14 PM
The ‘sambar’ lovers community is delighted at the latest development - onion price is down! In the recent past 4 months, the issue of high onion price was quite hot and debated - the public was put to great hardship - the hotels and restaurants as well!
In most Indian cuisines, onion forms an essential ingredient without which the preparation is Not complete! Thus, it has a crucial place in Indian kitchens!
However, the recent astronomical price of onion really bothered the public and make them long!
In fact, both large and small onions were sold at prices of up to Rs. 100 per kg in the last few months! Thus, the housewives and ‘omelettes and sambar aficionados’ were tremendously upset!
In hotels, they managed by part substitution of onion with cabbage! In most houses, they stopped preparing sambar.
In order to counter this steep onion process, the central and state governments took some initiatives such as importing from Egypt. But the price did not come down.
Now, as the onion is being harvested in several places in the country, the quantum of the onion being transported to Chennai had increased substantially and thus, the price of onion has started coming down.
Small onion, which was sold at Rs. 170 per kg at the start of the New Year, is now being sold at Rs. 50 per kg. The price range of large onion is almost similar.
As such, the sambar ‘relishers’ are really delighted!
