All India Kisan Sabha on Thursday (May 15, 2026) hit out at the government for its decision to ban sugar export, calling for an immediate rollback of the decision. Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) called the sugar export ban a ‘hasty’ and ‘ill-prepared’ decision.
“Government’s sudden sugar export ban is a double whammy for Maharashtra’s sugar mills. Excess stock + Increased FRP [Fair and Remunerative Price] + No exports = Financial disaster. We need foreign exchange, yet we’re locking away our surplus?” asked NCP SP leader Jayant Patil. He also wrote a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the onion issue after plummeting onion prices have led to farmers’ distress.
India bans sugar exports till September 30
He demanded that the government should give a Minimum Support Price of ₹2000 per quintal to the onion farmers, apart from ₹1500 in subsidy. He also sought that the government should start buying onions through NAFED or the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd, which is the country’s apex organisation for agricultural marketing cooperatives.
Recently, farmers in Nashik staged a protest and threw away hundreds of kilograms of onions as a mark of protest against the plummeting onion prices. they said that the current rates do not cover even the production and transportation cost.
