India's Export Ban on Onions Causing Backlog at Ports, Borders
India is under pressure to lift its ban on certain onion exports (see 2009150019) due to significant shipping backlogs at ports and borders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report released Sept. 21. More than…
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400,000 metric tons of onions are stuck at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port, the USDA said, and more than 500 trucks of onions are at the Nepal and Bangladesh borders. USDA said officials in the state of Maharashtra, the largest onion-producing state in India and where Jawaharlal Nehru operates near Mumbai, plan to ask the national government to “immediately” lift the ban.