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  2. 2010 Indian onion crisis - Wikipedia

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    In December, when fresh crop usually begins to arrive, onion shipments were reduced from 2000 to 3000 tons a day to 700-800 tons a day in New Delhi markets, [5] raising the price of onion from ₹ 35 (42¢ US) to ₹ 88 (US$1.10) per kg in the period of one week. [6] The price on some online portals was significantly lower, about 30-40/kg.

  3. Cost of transport - Wikipedia

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    The metabolic cost of transport includes the basal metabolic cost of maintaining bodily function, and so goes to infinity as speed goes to zero. [1] A human achieves the lowest cost of transport when walking at about 6 kilometres per hour (3.7 mph), at which speed a person of 70 kilograms (150 lb) has a metabolic rate of about 450 watts. [1]

  4. Acceptable daily intake - Wikipedia

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    For instance, if the ADI is based on data from humans the safety factor is usually 10 instead of 100. The ADI is usually given in mg per kg body weight. [5] The ADI is considered a safe intake level for a healthy adult of normal weight who consumes an average daily amount of the substance in question.

  5. Crop yield - Wikipedia

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    The units by which the yield of a crop is usually measured today are kilograms per hectare or bushels per acre.. Long-term cereal yields in the United Kingdom were some 500 kg/ha in Medieval times, jumping to 2000 kg/ha in the Industrial Revolution, and jumping again to 8000 kg/ha in the Green Revolution. [1]

  6. Vincent Kosuga - Wikipedia

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    The new shipments of onions caused many futures traders to think that there was an excess of onions and further drove down onion prices in Chicago. By the end of the onion season in March 1956, Seigel and Kosuga had flooded the markets with their onions and driven the price of 50 pounds (23 kg) of onions down to 10 cents a bag. [6]

  7. Onion Futures Act - Wikipedia

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    The "new" shipments of onions caused many futures traders to think that there was an excess of onions and further drove down onion prices in Chicago. By the end of the onion season in March 1956, Siegel and Kosuga had flooded the markets with their onions and driven the price of 50 pounds (23 kg) of onions down to 10 cents a bag. [6]

  8. Prices of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Per-kilogram prices of some synthetic radioisotopes range to trillions of dollars. ... and the cost of extraction of the element, at zero. ... USD/kg USD/L [c] 1: H ...

  9. Reduced cost - Wikipedia

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    It is the cost for increasing a variable by a small amount, i.e., the first derivative from a certain point on the polyhedron that constrains the problem. When the point is a vertex in the polyhedron, the variable with the most extreme cost, negatively for minimization and positively maximization, is sometimes referred to as the steepest edge.