Bengaluru: Rain constantly pushes the price of most of the vegetables of at least 30% over the past week, because the wet weather shortens the green shelf life.
While supply has fallen, the request remains constant, which leads to a surge in prices in the process.
An employee of the hopcoms (cooperative marketing community and processing of horticulture producers) said, “…
We have received continuous rain for the past two months and therefore has risen.
If the shower continues for another week, prices tend to rise 10%.” Almost All green is charged around Rs 100 bundles because the storage age is only around 24 hours in this weather.
On the other hand, the price of onions, surprisingly, remains constant for about two weeks because fresh supplies enter.
But the price of carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, Okra and potatoes almost twice in the last seven days.
“While some people have replaced tomatoes with acids, many buy half of what they use and come back later for fresh stocks,” Hopcoms employees said.
He explained that 60% of the supply of Bengaluru tomatoes came from Kolar and the remaining 40% were planted in the nearest neighborhood of the city.
“At present, there is no supply from Kollar, while we only get 5% of what is cultivated here.” Mohammed Idris Choudary, Secretary General, the Russell Market Traders Association, said vegetables perish in one or two days when exposed to more moisture.
“Vegetable prices have risen 100% and are frightening for US traders.
No doubt farmers are affected because they tend to lose many products that rot on the farm themselves.
In addition, some farmers find difficult transportation,” he added.
While the price increase has resulted in most farmers losing money, some have resulted in profits too.
RV Gopi, Vegetable President and Fruits Wholesalers Association, said: “Farmers with good results have resulted in a big profit due to price increases.
On the other hand, most other people suffer losses with their products rot in the rain.”