As per report a trip to a vegetable market in chennai will leave your wallet a little lighter with the price of vegetables, especially onions soaring over the last few days.  Reportedly 

‘Ballary’ onion or big onion is a favorite in most food items made in tamil households, especially in non-vegetarian dishes. However, the recent price rise has forced people to desist from buying onions. Meanwhile the city’s retail markets have been selling big onions at Rs 120 per kilogram. Presently the rate is high when considering the fact that on october 27, the selling price of one kilogram of big onions was Rs 48 and that’s a jump of 150% in just a month.

Furthermore this unprecedented price increase of the vegetable is changing appetites in Chennai’s households and hotels. Meanwhile many have started rationing the quantity of onions used in their daily consumption, many others have started searching for dishes which do not need onion as an ingredient. Apparently a lot of them have also started hunting for places where they can buy onions at a bargain.

Moreover R Srinivasan, Secretary of tamilnadu Hotels Association told TNM that the restaurants across the state have been affected by the steep prices of onions in the market and hence have reduced the use of the vegetable in the dishes. He said “We have requested the government to intervene and stop the hike in onion prices and hope that the government will do the needful at the earliest. Meanwhile, we are not contemplating an increase in the prices of food items sold in hotels. We are expecting the prices to fall soon". Perhaps he also adds that onions need complete dryness from sowing to harvesting and hence floods will affect the growth itself adversely. However, the official says that the price fluctuation is seasonal and hence it will get back to normal in a few days’ time.