Madurai / Trichy: The price of tomatoes has begun to rise with the onset of rain and sold with Rs 60 per kilogram in the retail market in Madurai, RS 20 which is good for wholesale prices.
Inventories have fallen half and prices are expected to increase.
In Trichy, prices have jumped to Rs 50 per kilogram in the retail market in the past week but have begun to decline and be sold at Rs 25 per kilogram in the wholesale market and RS 30 at retail stores.
Madurai vegetable market in Mattouthavani received around 100 tons of tomatoes during the peak season.
The President of the Pasar Murugan Market Wholesalers Association said they received less than 40 tons now.
Tomatoes are one vegetable that is rarely influenced by the price of fuel, but when the rain is damaged easily and supply down, he said.
The Madurai market gets tomatoes from Dindigul, Theni and Karnataka where plants have been hit.
“Unlike the original, hybrid tomatoes began to damage quickly, so you couldn’t save it for a long time, ” said K Lakshmi from Vilangan.
In August, we threw a large number of tomatoes at the landfill because we were unable.
To get the price.
well.
but today, the price is good, but there is no production, said Senthil P, a farmer in the Dindigul district.
Tomatoes are cultivated in Aranmanai Pudur, KaruvelanNayakanPatti, Nagalapuram and other places in the Dindigul District, many parts of Dindigul, many parts of Dindigul, many parts of Theni and also in Madurai.
Most of the plants produce around 96 tons of hectares in about 140 days in ideal conditions.