Pune: Tomatoes sell cheap dirt, cheaper than one kg of salt or chips package, on Gultekdi market pages and in other wholesale markets in all districts because of the education of supply, forcing farmers to remove kitchen staples in several places.
Agriculture produced a wholesale market market committee in Gultekdi received 1,356 tomato quintals on which Friday purchased by traders from RS2 to RS10 per kg, depending on quality.
A similar rate was reported from Narayangaon Market, among the largest markets for tomatoes in the state.
The decline in wholesale prices has little or no effect on the retail market or in local Mandis in Pune, where it still sells for RS10 per kg or more, depending on the quality.
Sandesh Gupta from Vishrantwadi said he bought tomatoes for more than RS12 per kg on Friday.
Pimple Saudagar Resident Amit Singh said, “I bought it in the range of Rs 15 to Rs 20 per kg.” Datta Kalamkar, Head of Vegetable Section at Gultekdi Market Yard, said, “The market has received a large number of tomatoes from various Dersil District Pune and from other neighboring districts which caused prices to fall in the past few days.” They received around 30,000 tomato crates on Friday.
One chest contains around 20kg.
“Every chest with good quality tomatoes is auctioned from Rs30 to RS100.
But, chests with medium and sub-standard plants are not auctioned when traders don’t bid them.
As a result, farmers must throw their harvest in open areas,” said Sanjay Kale, said Naryangaon Market Chair.
Kale said a new virus that affected tomatoes in Junnar Tehsil stopped the export of plants.
Farmers must invest extra capital on pesticides to overcome viruses, he added.
Climate change has triggered more virus attacks on tomatoes, according to scientists from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Pune.
Exports to other countries have shrunk last year during a pandemic.
Santosh Kolhe, a tomato planter from Junnar Tehsil, said he had to install the Lakh RS to grow tomatoes in the three-hectare land.
“Most for pesticides.
I have 200 chests that are not sold in auction on Friday.
I can’t even recover my transportation costs.
There are hundreds of farmers who are in the same situation,” he said.
Some farmers have left their plantations because they cannot afford workers.
“The cost of picking, packing, and transportation experienced several thousand rupees.
At the current level, we will not be able to recover costs.
As a result, I have left the plantation and told local residents to take it for free so I do not need to tie the workers to revoke,” Vikas said Bhujbal, said the farmer from Khed Tehsil.
Wholesale traders and officials from various markets in Pune said tomato prices would increase after two weeks.
“Restaurants, hotels, food courts, and restaurants have been reopened and operated for hours.
This will increase tomato demand, and the price will rise,” Ajay Tengle, a commission agent in the market of Vegetable Chakan, said.