Mangaluru: If the favorite Sambar drum pieces everywhere in the house or restaurant is gone, do not be surprised.
They will not appear in the Lentil-based vegetable soup in the near future with a culinary vegetable prices hovering at Rs 240 per kg.
Drumstick price has more than doubled from last two weeks up to 400% in a month is not surprising with the results fell drastically by bad weather in the coastal areas that supply to the coastal districts.
Prices have seen a rising trend since the beginning of Dasara and never go down even after the celebration.
Rain nasabana have seen that after Deepavali price has gone further to the north and down.
Irony is the tomato, which was thrown by the farmers for the sale of distress, take the princely sum of Rs 110 per kg, it is also for inferior variations here.
So much so that one hardly experience skin tomatoes, which give the sharp taste to Sambar and otherwise populated with varieties of vegetables that are cheaper such as ash gourd (Rs 22 per kg), pumpkin (Rs 20 per kg), and YAM (Rs 33 per kg) The restaurant Sambar.
While the tomatoes had broken the century mark, so having capsicum (Rs 112 per kg), carrots (Rs 100 per kg) by another competitor who approached the century mark to be nuts doubles and cowpea, pumpkin back, ivy gourd, all more than Rs 75 per kg , However, prices of potatoes and onions remained stable in each of Rs 32 and Rs 38.
The Secretary Hopcoms Ravichandra Shetty said that two weeks after the weather stabilizes there may be some parity, do not let this situation will continue to demand outstripped supply, with pojoks profit middlemen.
“The situation on Monday such a way that we only get three tons of vegetables to the indentation five tons.
On Tuesday, the indentation is for 3-4 tons, and we hope to get at least half of it,” he said.
Hopcoms, which provides vegetables from Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Bangalore for local distribution, has eight outlets in the city and seven in other taluk of Dakshina Kannada.