Nashik: North Maharashtra District Nashik, who is famous for the onion, equally popular for tomato cultivation.
But the farmers here, are currently in trouble, throwing tomato crates on the road after the price falls to 4.5 kg Rs in the wholesale market.
Like the famous Lasalgaon market, the Baswant Pimpalgaon market in Nashik is one of the largest tomato trading markets in the country.
Pimpalgaon supplies tomatoes to other markets such as Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Haryana.
It also exported tomatoes.
It is estimated that 10 lakh farmers grow tomatoes in the Nashik district, redeeming nearly 20% of state production.
During the last two days in a row, part of the Irked tomato farmer threw away products on the road near various ‘Mandis’.
The average wholesale tomato price has dropped by around 65% in the last three weeks – from Rs 13 kg to around Rs 4.5 per kg.
The farmers said they were throwing away products on the road to attract the attention of the state government.
“The cost of production of tomato cultivation is around Rs 5 kg.
In addition, we have to pay for transportation.
With low wholesale prices, we cannot cover transportation costs,” Lamera Farmer Nashik Sanjay Dheringe.
According to Nashik APMC officials, wholesale prices have fallen due to a significant increase in supply compared to slow slow demand in Maharashtra and elsewhere in this country.
The tomato season in Nashik starts from August and arrivals in ‘Mandis’ pick up in September.
Secretary APMC Nashik Arun Kale said the supply of tomatoes in the market had doubled from 20,000 chests (20 kg of crates) to 47,000 crates a day.
Demand, however, is low.
“This season Nashik has begun registering the arrival of the bumper in Mandis because of more production.
Last year, farmers took wholesale prices around Rs 35-40 A Kg in Mandis.
Seeing this interesting price, many farmers, who usually do not plant tomatoes, take it.
Has produced large production and prices have swooped, “said Traders Tomato Bhikchand Parakha.
According to the numbers distributed by tomato traders, the arrival of tomato daily in ‘Mandis’ in the Nashik district in August last year was around 50,000 crates a day.
This year, it has increased to around 2.75 lakh petion a day.
The price of agricultural products in the state is maintained by the Maharashtra state agricultural marketing board (MSAM).
Speaking to Toi, MSAB Managing Director Sunil Pawar admitted that the wholesale prices of tomatoes had fallen due to extraordinary hikes in offers.
“The solution to this problem is to increase the value of tomatoes when the shelf life is short.
The plan is being carried out to regulate the processing unit, which will be a win-win situation both for farmers and the country,” the guard nurtures.
Former Minister of Agriculture and MLC Sadabhau Khot, who met with tomato farmers in Nashik on Thursday, demanded that the state government subsidized Rs 10 per kg for tomato farmers.
“The condition of a sad tomato farmer.
State government must act quickly to improve the fate of poor farmers,” he demanded.
Accident Price of Tomatoes, Nashik Dump Farmers Produced on the Road
