Ahmedabad: While the price of tomatoes in the APMC Jamalpur wholesale market is between Rs 18 to RS 30 per kg, when he reached consumers on satellites or Mengagar, it became RS 80.
Other vegetable prices were also 200 percent when reaching consumers.
Supply chain analysis shows that intermediaries and traders at each stage go away with the Lion section of the results.
On Wednesday, tomato prices between Rs 18 and Rs 30 in the wholesale market, sell for Rs 50 per kg outside.
In areas such as satellites and Thaltej prices range from Rs 80 to Rs 90 per kg.
A senior APMC officer said that at all stages, the trader’s profit was added.
“Everyone benefits from high prices, but only farmers who suffer when prices fall.
Middlemen takes their commission no matter what.
This is a business without loss for vendors.
We also observe that the price of vegetables after they rise, it takes a long time.
In such cases, retail prices are not related to the wholesale market.
Khemji Marwadi, a vegetable trader in Bopal, said, “We must carry vegetables in loading pedicabs from Jamalpur and with high fuel prices, transportation costs increase.
Traders in APMC also raise their prices and we must bear the burden of the increase.
“The government has a market committee, but the committee does not have a role in prices, especially outside the APMC.
In APMC, prices are determined based on the quality and supply of products.
Secretary Jamalpur APMC, Deepak Patel, said heavy rain in the state and mushrooms affected by supply and prices greatly increased.
in terms of tomatoes, products from local farmers have just begun to enter and prices will go down at APMC, but he cannot comment on prices in the retail market.
A APMC officer said vendor vegetables also mixed low quality products and high quality and sold it at a price He said that on the wholesale application, tomato prices around Rs 45 per kg, while Rs 85 at a vegetable kiosk.