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By Tawney Kruger in Tashkent If you’ve an appetite for lashings and lashings of French onion soup then Uzbekistan is the place to be right now. According to trade experts, you can buy one kilogram of onions for as little as $0.12. Estimates suggest that due to what the trade news and analysis site EastFruit refers to as “tragic onion overproduction”, somewhere between 150,000-200,000 tonnes of onions may end up being discarded or used as cattle feed in Uzbekistan. A similar story is playing out in Kazakhstan and other parts of Central Asia. It’s a desperate situation for farmers and a cautiona…

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