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Big Onion Train and Trucks Help Keep Prices Low! 🚂🛻

The government sent lots of onions on a special train and many trucks to cities.

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Key Points

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Two big trains moved 1,290 metric tonnes of onions.

About 1,000 metric tonnes traveled by road trucks.

Onions are being sold for about 35 Indian rupees per kilogram.

The government paid about 210 crore Indian rupees directly to onion farmers.

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This helps make sure there are enough onions in stores.

When there are enough onions, they stay cheap for families. 🧅

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4 words

metric tonne

a large weight unit equal to about 1,000 kilograms

crore

ten million (10,000,000)

government

the group of people who run the country

rupee

the money used in India

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