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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tomato prices in city red hot at Rs 80/kg

Tomato prices in city red hot at Rs 80/kg

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published Published on Nov 20, 2015   modified Modified on Nov 20, 2015
-The Times of India

HYDERABAD: Tomatoes might soon go off the common man's dinner plate, thanks to a steep hike in prices of the vegetable triggered by widespread destruction of farmland by unseasonal floods.

The staple food item at almost every kitchen, available at Rs 15/kg in the open market in April this year, has now jumped five-fold to Rs 75-80/kg. The sudden spike, has also become a talking point on twitter, with hashtag: #thalisetamatargayab trending all day.

Agricultural marketing officials and other experts said the unruly rainfall patterns, worsened by the recent cyclone over Tamil Nadu, might see the prices shooting up further.

According to experts, most of the tomato produce is brought into the city from Kurnool and Chittoor districts. But due to incessant rainfall over the past one week, most of the crop got destroyed. "More than 30 per cent of the crop area was affected by untimely rains. Banking upon the sudden crop failure, many traders and middlemen have begun hoarding tomatoes to spike up the prices also," G V Ramanjenayulu, executive director, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, told TOI.

He also said that traders, and not farmers, have proper storage facilities. "The lack of infrastructure is forcing the middlemen to hoard vegetables and sell it once the prices were higher," he alleged.

Not just open markets, the wayward supply has also come to hit the city's rythu bazaars. A glance through the procurement charts shows that most of the agrarian markets received as much as 300 tonnes of tomato in the first week of November. That dwindled to nine tonnes or even nil in some centres on Tuesday. In some bazaars, the government sold some stocks at Rs 43/kg, but with no supplies the stocks disappeared within minutes.

"The price of tomatoes is sky-rocketing. The price is ensuring that it way out of the common man's reach," said Saurav Aggarwal, a resident of Nacharam.

Even wholesale and retail traders in the city say they are finding it extremely difficult to procure stocks of tomatoes. "Usually, at this time of the year we receive stocks from Chittoor and Anantpur. But now we are finding it very difficult to procure any stocks. In the wholesale markets, one kilogram of tomatoes is going for anywhere around Rs 50, but in the retail markets the price has gone up to Rs 80," rued Naveen Kumar, of Ma Vegetable Suppliers, Bowenpally.

"Many restaurants have started procuring lesser quantities, owing to the price hike. Earlier, the eateries used to procure as much as 100 kilos from us, but now they are taking only 50 kilos or less," he said.

However, government officials from the agricultural marketing department said that they are doing their best to control the prices. "If required, we will procure the vegetables from Madhya Pradesh or Punjab to meet the demands of the people," said a senior official of the department.


The Times of India, 19 November 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Tomato-prices-in-city-red-hot-at-Rs-80/kg/articleshow/49838703.cms


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