Commodity Tips, India stares at drop-in onion output in 2017-18

However, potato production is set to increase around 1% more than last year

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India’s onion production in 2017-18 is expected to be 21.4 million tonnes, around 4.5 percent less than last year due to less sowing.

However, potato output is expected at 49.3 mt, around one percent more than last year, showed the first advance estimate for horticultural crops. These were issued on Tuesday.

A fall in onion production might push up prices for consumers. For potato farmers, it could be another bad year in terms of prices; the 2017-18 harvest would come after a 12 percent rise in 2016-17 production at 48.6 mt.

Onion sowing is estimated at 1.19 mn hectares in 2017-18 or 8.4 percent less than last year. Potatoes were sown in 21.76 mn ha, marginally less than the 21.79 mn of last year.