India's Onion Farmers Cry Foul At Politicians' Price Recipe

Indian onion farmers complain that their livelihoods are being hurt by politicians' moves to keep prices down for consumers (Credit: AFP)

Almost every Indian meal requires an onion -- one of the cooking essentials along with sugar and lentils that sweet-talking politicians use to curry favour with their voters by lowering costs.

But their policies to cut prices by slapping export bans on some goods including on onions and sugar, or by allowing duty-free imports of lentils, has made the key voting demographic of farmers furious.