Navi Mumbai: Vegetable prices have surged on the wholesale and retail markets due to short supply caused by rain without the season and damaged plants.
Main price kitchen, tomatoes, skyrocketing and sold at RS 50 prices, the highest in the APMC market wholesale season, on Saturday, which drives retail prices between Rs 70 and 100 kg in MMR.
Other vegetables are being studied with Rs 60-80 per kg because of the spurt sudden prices on the wholesale market.
APMC wholesalers connect a sharp surge in the price of the main kitchen staples, such as tomatoes, until the rain falls in the main producing areas besides the recent rain in the south.
With a little supply and increased demand today, prices have passed the roof.
The wholesale price of tomatoes at the Vashi Market floated between Rs 30-40 kg a week ago.
Resident Vashi Nilesh Patil said, “The kitchen budget has been disturbed by the increase in vegetable prices.” The price of other vegetables such as nuts, capsicum, bridal, female fingers are in the range of Rs 60-80.
Director of Mumbai APMC Shankar Pingle said that “Rain has become the only reason to soar the price of vegetables.
The majority of plants have been damaged.
We are very dependent on local products from various parts of the country now because there are very few trucks that arrive from Bangalore and parts of South India .
prices will rise further until fresh crop hit the market in the next two weeks.
“Harvesting fresh crops has been delayed which is one of the main reasons besides price increase substantial damage to the buffer stock.
We have to wait a few more days to get help from a price increase, “said APMC Trader Ballasaheb Badade.
A retailer of Mulund Shirish Pawar said,” Most vegetable prices increased 30-40 percent in the past week.
Our regular consumers have expressed hatred for price trends.
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