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An onion farmer in Nashik wakes up at 5 AM, walks into his field, and harvests onions he will sell for ₹2 per kilogram. Yet, that same onion, after traveling 1,400 kilometres north to Delhi, sits in a vegetable crate priced at ₹60 per kilogram. This vast difference between the farmer onion price and the consumer price is not a simple matter of transportation or storage costs. It reveals a deeper issue: the middleman economy agriculture India has fostered over decades, which e