JAIPUR: Not just tomatoes, rising prices of other vegetables too, have burnt holes in the pocket of common man. Since the monsoon harvested vegetables will start coming from August onwards the curtailed supply of vegetables have increased the prices. Tomatoes are already being sold at Rs 120 per kg in retail and ginger is continuously being sold at Rs 260 to Rs 280 per kg.
TOI on Friday spoke to the wholesale dealers and retail shopkeepers of the vegetables to know how prices have risen and till when the prices will come down.
“As far as tomatoes are concerned the farmers across the country were upset with the wholesale prices offered to them for tomatoes in the month of April which were as low as Rs 2 to Rs 5 per kg. Thus, the farmers in protest had abandoned their crop due to which tomato crop was affected by pests. Similar conditions prevailed in June month. Now the crop of tomatoes sown in July will start coming from August second week. By August second week only the prices will come down with the increase in supply,” Shiv Shankar Sharma, a wholesale dealer of vegetables at Muhana Mandi in Jaipur told TOI.
Another wholesale trader said that presently tomatoes are coming to Rajasthan from Bengaluru, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh and that too is a crunched supply. Other vegetables are also showing a rising trend. “The stock of vegetables that comes in the summer is now exhausted. Now the monsoon vegetables will start coming from the second week of August. Till then the prices will continue to increase,” said Abdul Sagir, a wholesale dealer of vegetables at Hasanpura vegetable market.
TOI on Friday spoke to the wholesale dealers and retail shopkeepers of the vegetables to know how prices have risen and till when the prices will come down.
“As far as tomatoes are concerned the farmers across the country were upset with the wholesale prices offered to them for tomatoes in the month of April which were as low as Rs 2 to Rs 5 per kg. Thus, the farmers in protest had abandoned their crop due to which tomato crop was affected by pests. Similar conditions prevailed in June month. Now the crop of tomatoes sown in July will start coming from August second week. By August second week only the prices will come down with the increase in supply,” Shiv Shankar Sharma, a wholesale dealer of vegetables at Muhana Mandi in Jaipur told TOI.
Another wholesale trader said that presently tomatoes are coming to Rajasthan from Bengaluru, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh and that too is a crunched supply. Other vegetables are also showing a rising trend. “The stock of vegetables that comes in the summer is now exhausted. Now the monsoon vegetables will start coming from the second week of August. Till then the prices will continue to increase,” said Abdul Sagir, a wholesale dealer of vegetables at Hasanpura vegetable market.
