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“Inadequate rain and water scarcity have led to the summer onion cultivation dropping to 84,000 hectares. The drought has badly hit our summer onion cultivation this year,” said Bharos Ahire, a farmer from Nimbayati village in the district’s Malegaon taluka.Maharashtra has declared drought in 151 talukas. The area under cultivation for summer onions has halved this year,” said Sanjiv Padwal, district agriculture superintendent officer, Nashik. Last year, I had cultivated my entire 10 acres for summer onions. Several villages across the state have not even sown rabi onions, bringing down the overall cultivation till January 21 to 1.8 lakh hectares—the lowest in the past two years..