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Covid effect: price of vegetable crashes

Mysuru: Because the rainfall is not season, the price of vegetables has risen sharply in the first week of December with one kilo tomato for Rs 100.
Now prices have fallen, disappointing farmers who hope to cash the supply of demand gap.
How come and curfew again, leading to limiting the movement of the vehicle to neighboring Kerala, farmers are worried that the price of vegetables further falls in all APMC markets with easy vehicle movements to neighboring countries Tamil Nadu and Kerala.Daily, more than 300 trucks Which carries hundreds of tons of vegetables from Mysore, Gundlupet APMC Markets to Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
MySuru also serves as a market for vegetables for adjoining districts such as Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Mandya, Hassan and Chitradurga.
But now, have a takeover and more arrival because the price of vegetables has decreased by 40% from the past week because of increasing supply.
Buyers from other countries and neighboring districts, who regularly buy vegetables from the district APMC, have stopped it from the last two days due to Covid restrictions back, because screening during the checkpost, weekend hours, restrictions on the sale of goods in the hotel announced by the state government.
To curb the spread of infection, said Agent MySuru APMC Baradapura Nagaraj, who is also Secretary General of MySuru – Chamarajanagar Grower Vegetable Association.
Prices almost down 40% for vegetables including tomatoes, bitter pumps, cucumbers, carrots, nuts and pumpkins, he said.
“The plants are bad because of the heat and farmers who are intensely harvest premature plants and rush to the market, which leads to incense in the market and price decline, which increasingly increases losses for farmers.
As vegetables such as tomatoes, cauliflower, okra is very easily damaged, farmers need Direct market facilities.
Weekend curfews such as restrictions will place farmers and horticultural producers risk MySuru Regency from the Federation of Karnataka State Farmers.

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