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Onion prices to keep rising as shortage bites

Currently, 1kg of onions sells at Sh150 while a 40kg sack retails at Sh5,600. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The price of onions will continue rising across the country due to low local production and reduced imports from Tanzania.

This has caused a biting shortage of the commodity with prices tripling.

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