India is one of the largest producers of onion in the world second only to China, accounting for 16 percent of total area under cultivation in the world and 10 percent of total production. In India, onion is cultivated in 0.39 million hectares with production of 4.30 million tonnes per annum. Most of the onion produced in India comes from the state of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana.
Status of Onion Storage Structures and its Potential in India
The present storage capacity for onion is about 4.6 lakh tonnes. This is quite inadequate compared to our total production. Even most of the structures available are traditional and unscientific. If 40 % of the stocks are earmarked for scientific storage the potential for new storage structures is about 12.6 lakh tonnes. However, it has been projected by the Expert Committee on Cold Storage and Onion Storage that about 1.5 lakh tonnes on-farm capacity in production areas and 3.0 lakh tonnes capacity at APMCs and other market places are required in next 5 years. Thus there remains a vast potential to be tapped.
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Operation Green
The project is planned for manufacturing Absorbent Bleached Cotton using Comber Noil for export to European Manufacturers of final products.
The absorbent bleached cotton is used to manufacture following products:
Comber Noil is used to manufacture all the above products by European Companies. The comber noil is imported by these companies mainly from India, Turkey and some other countries.
Total requirement of European Companies is about 20,000 Tons/Month and mostly these are big companies like CMC Group, Eco wipes, Sissma and many more.
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