Is it hard to grow onions in the average India climate?
Longer answer: see below.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/are-high-vegetab...
"According to Government data, India’s onion output in 2012-13 at 16.65 million tonnes, wasn’t much below the record 17.51 million of the previous year. Also, the fact that prices at Lasalgaon, Maharashtra’s and Asia’s largest onion market, averaged Rs 8 to 8.50 a kg till mid-May shows the crop wasn’t bad. What, then, explains the same Lasalgaon prices now touching Rs 45/kg?
"The last time when wholesale prices rose so much — consumers paid Rs 100 then — was in early January 2011. But that was a year when crop in South India was hit, especially by floods in Andhra Pradesh. The country’s entire requirement had to, then, be met from stored Maharashtra onions, allowing the traders at Lasalgaon to make a killing. But this time round, no such production disruption has happened; the kharif crop from the South is yet to be harvested.
"It only points to the power of traders, who would have bought at Rs 8 in early-May and stored to create artificial scarcity after July — when crop arrivals stop and the festival season takes off with Ramzan/Id-ul-Fitr!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%5B%5B2003%2C+5750...
So production almost doubled since 2004. Data from:
http://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/India%20Production/India_Pr...
So presumably India should be flush with onions, unless I missed something and demand for onions also doubled. How could traders corner the markt in that situation?
For example, in my own little world of 100 odd Facebook friends roughly 18 voted for the ruling party and only 26% of my friends voted. So you can imagine, we the people brought it on ourselves. And we have been doing it for a couple of decades. Like it or not, this is exactly how karma or lack of it comes back at you.
During the days of coalition Indian governments with more colors than a rainbow, they kept telling that all problems were due to lack of clear mandate. Fine, the current ruling party literally got the clearest mandate in decades - the people got record breaking scams/all time high prices in return.
And before you chastise the voter for voting based on caste/religion and not voting on policy issues, the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world.
If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference.
Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed:
1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options.
2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote.
> ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world.
Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.
It's like a self-check you can run every time you want to comment...