Kolkata: Diesel prices on Sundays rose to Rs 91.8 per liter, burning the kitchen budget.
Most of the vegetable prices as a result were significantly penetrated compared to the middle of this month because of the increasing cost of transportation and loss of crops due to inundation.
Public vegetables, such as brinjal, bitter pumps, coriander leaves, green chili, striped pumpkin and okra, sold nearly double what last week ago.
“There has been a significant decline in production due to a broad inundation in South Bengal, leaving a wider gap between demand and supply,” said Gour Ghosh, a member of the Vegetable Farmers Association.
Ghosh said the plants stood still rot in the fields that logged in water.
Prices will be multiplied during the trip.
“Transportation costs have increased rapidly.
In addition, vendors carry smaller amounts so they can sell these easily damaged items in a four-hour window,” said Kamal Dey, President, Bengal Vendor Association.
In the last 15 days, the transportation costs have multiple nea-rly.
In addition, because storm waterways still flow above the normal level, pumping water does not produce results, Ghosh said.
Agriculture cannot be continued with extensive land plots in barasat, Bongaon, Hasnabad, Bhangor and canning, where vegetables mainly grow.
Now, Bengal gets vegetables even from a distant place, such as Bangalore, Jharkhand, Hapur and Tamil Nadu.
Most vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, sticks, capsicum, nuts and tomatoes, come from outside the state.
“The price of vegetables will only calm down when the production of local vegetables swing back to normal,” said Gopal Sonkar, a wholesaler in the market of Sadah.
“The situation is not possible to change in one and a half months – minimum time for vegetable production updates in South Bengal.
Until then, we have to deal with the supply gap of demand evaporates,” said Dilip Mandal, vegetable vendor in the garawan market.
“The essential price increase can be enemies associated with more expensive fuel.
No doubt we have staggered under natural disasters.
We assess the level of damage.
But the cost of carrying has increased.
It is revised almost every day and the movement has become more expensive, “said Agri Pradeep Advisor Mazumdar.
Farmers make sales depressed from their products because they cannot afford high transportation costs.
So, commodities that are being sold cheaply in the rural market, it becomes more expensive after arriving at the city market, he said.