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After the extreme surge in tomato prices, it is now the turn of onion prices to soar. Maharashtra has more than 33 per cent share of India’s onion production, and farmers from Nashik district, which is the State’s onion hub, predict an onion shortage owing to late kharif sowing and damage caused to rabbi onion stored in chawls.Despite housing Asia’s biggest onion market in Lasalgaon, Nashik farmers rue that they have to struggle to keep their onions safe from rains and humidity due to the unavailability of quality storage facilities. But this...