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| Tomato Is The New Petrol: Rates Top 100/Kg In Gujrat, Andhra Pradesh And Chennai |
In Gujrat and Andhra Pradesh - the biggest maker of tomatoes in the nation - the vegetable is selling at 100 a kg. In Ahmedabad, Chennai tomatoes are begging to be spent, costing as much as 140 a kilo.
The cost of tomatoes - sold each colder time of year around 20 a kilo - has spiraled following precipitation and floods in pieces of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In most southern states, tomatoes are selling for as much as 100 a kilo. The most noticeably awful victim of the deficiency is Chennai, where the genuinely necessary vegetable is selling for 140 a kilo, up from 40 a kilo toward the start of this current month.
Costs of different vegetables like capsicum and onions have additionally gone up, giving the resistance a new issue to assault the public authority.
In Andhra Pradesh - the biggest maker of tomatoes in the nation - the vegetable is selling at 100 a kg and are probably going to shoot up further. Huge tomato-developing regions have been hit by downpour and the diesel value climb is further increasing the costs.
Ordinarily, tomatoes are developed from 58000 hectares in Andhra Pradesh and the state develops around 26.67 lakh metric tons. Madanapalle in Chittoor is the greatest tomato market. Be that as it may, this year, the greatest makers - the regions of Chittoor and Anantapur - are among the spaces hit most noticeably terrible by floods.
Presently the provisions are coming for the most part from Solapur in Maharashtra, and Karnataka's Chikbullapur.
In Chennai, where tomatoes are begging to be spent, the wholesalers are accusing short stock and accumulating by online stages. Other than some nearby produce, the city gets its provisions to a great extent from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
"The circumstance that Modi-Ji has made for the nation - Section 144 has been forced on tomato and onion in the kitchen... Capsicum is 100-120 a kilo, even onions are 50 a kg," said Congress representative Pawan Khera.
Calling attention to that info cost has gone up after the burden of Goods and Services Tax on diesel and horticultural gear, he said the public authority should make an evaluation of the public authority on how much cash the average person is left with toward the month's end.
In addition, the free proportion will likewise stop toward the finish of November, he said, commenting that the public authority "didn't make any arrangements for the post-Covid period".
