In onion belt, BARC unit to increase shelf life lies unused

After high onion prices pulled down the BJP governments in Delhi and Rajasthan in 1998, the NDA government asked the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to set up an irradiation unit in the country's largest onion market — Lasalgaon in Nashik district — to treat onions and increase their shelf life. The unit was set up in 2002 at a cost of Rs 8 crore.

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