THE central government on Saturday withdrew 20 per cent duty on the export of onions imposed in September 2024.
The decision will come into effect on 1 April 2025. The Department of Revenue issued a notification to this effect today on the Department of Consumer Affairs’s communication.
To ensure domestic availability, the government had taken measures to check export by means of duty, minimum export price (MEP) and even to the extent of export prohibition for almost five months, from 8 December 2023 till 3 May 2024.
The export duty of 20 per cent, which now stands removed, has been in place since 13 September 2024.
Despite export restrictions, the government said that the total onion export during 2023-24 was 17.17 lakh tonne and in 2024-25 (till 18 March), it was 11.65 lakh tonne.
Monthly onion export quantity had picked up from 0.72 lakh tonne in September, 2024 to 1.85 lakh tonne in January 2025.
“The decision stands as another testament to the government’s commitment to ensuring remunerative prices to farmers while maintaining affordability of onion to the consumers at this crucial juncture when both mandi and retail prices have soften following expected arrival of rabi crops in good quantities,” Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, said in a release.
ANI
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