Onion prices fall 300% in 4 months, wholesale inflation eases

Onion prices cooling off as much as 300 per cent in January helped India's wholesale price-based inflation ease to an eight-month low, government data showed on Friday. Onion inflation has fallen to a little over 6 per cent in January after touching 336 per cent in September last year and is at a near one-and-a-half year low.