NASHIK: Onion auction resumed at the Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC), the country's largest wholesale market near Nashik, on Thursday after the traders promised to accept the new norms from September 1.
At a meeting with APMC officials, the traders accepted the hike in porterage and weighing charges by 27% and abolition of the weighing bridge charges with effect from September 1. Presently, weighing charges are Rs 2.68 per quintal and porterage is Rs 2.12 per quintal. The state government had instructed APMCs to increase the weighing and porterage by 44%.
Moreover, Rs 10 was to be charged per tractor loaded with onion on electronic weighing bridge owned by traders as well as APMCs. The charges (Rs 10 per tractor) for weighing on electronic weighbridge have been scrapped.
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