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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Soaring tomato prices: Blame it on virus that upset Kolar's fruit cart - Anitha Pailoor

Soaring tomato prices: Blame it on virus that upset Kolar's fruit cart - Anitha Pailoor

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published Published on Jul 3, 2023   modified Modified on Jul 3, 2023

Deccan Herald

The reason for the sudden rise in tomato prices across the country lies in Bengaluru’s backyard. The arrivals at the Kolar Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), which is a major supplier of tomatoes to the entire country from June to September, have seen a sharp decline. The APMC has received only 3.2 lakh quintals of tomatoes this June, as against 5.45 lakh quintals in June 2022. In fact, the arrivals are on a downward trajectory since 2021 when they had touched 9.37 lakh quintals in June

Farmers attribute the fall in yield to tomato leaf curl virus disease, which has hit the crop in Kolar and neighbouring tomato-growing districts. “We generally have 15 rounds of harvest this season. However, this time, we will get only 3-5 rounds as the plants are drying up due to the disease,” says farmer Nalini Gowda.

She was expecting 9,000 boxes (15 kg in each box) of harvest from her three-acre field. Now, she has to settle for 1,800 boxes. The fruit sets after 70 days of planting the sapling; the harvest period is 45 days. A field visit-based report by ICAR-IIHR scientists confirms that tomato leaf curl virus has affected more than 50 per cent of the crop in Kolar’s villages. 


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Anitha Pailoor, Deccan Herald, 3 July, 2023, https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/soaring-tomato-prices-blame-it-on-virus-that-upset-kolars-fruit-cart-1233349.html


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