Udupi: Onions, the most essential ingredient creates not only mouth to water in almost all our food items, but time and again it has made our eye also to shed water. With prices of Onion shooting up with out control it has become too difficult for consumer buying them and have found few retailers who are eluctant to store them because of market fluctuations. Quantity of purchasing onions, have come down because the selling price of it is at Rs. 70 per kg.even at the APMC yard here on Wednesday. Normally onions are bought in more quantity than other vegetables, but it has become vice versa.. The prices of onion have shot up by Rs. 15 since last Wednesday.

A retired employee said he is feeling the pinch due to a spurt in the price of onions. Onion is used in most of the vegetarian and non-vegetarian preparations and Onion is a must for making sambar and with out it making many items are nearly impossible.. It is difficult to do without onions. It is difficult to find alternate for onion said an home maker, and said that she had decided to buy other vegetables as substitute for onions. “I will use other vegetables for curries in place of onions. But when it comes to preparation of chicken-related dishes, there is no alternative. she said.

In whole sale onions are purchased by traders from Hubballi, who resell it to the retail merchants in the city. Said a wholesale merchant at the yard, he said.The retail sellers have their own problems with onions. a retail merchant, said that he did not purchase onions in large quantities from wholesalers. “It is a perishable commodity. Small merchants cannot afford losses,” he said.the high prices. are expected to come down in next four days,” he said.