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The article reports that onion farmers in Nashik, India are beginning to reduce onion cultivation and turning their focus on other crops due to seed shortage and higher prices of seeds. Topics include data by agriculture department on kharif onion plantation, cost of production, cultivation of bajra, jowar and corn, and non viability of crop yields. Chairman of Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) Nanasaheb Patil discusses the possibilities of a setback on onion cultivation.

The article reports on the problems to be faced by India's onion industry that includes the shortage of seeds and the threat presented by the El Nino weather condition.