₹120. Don't know when will the prices come back to normal." In Shimla, tomatoes were being sold at ₹100 whereas other vegetables, including capsicum, pumpkin, cauliflower, and brinjal are also selling at higher prices. Babli Salotra, a Shimla local told ANI that “The prices are very high.
The prices of cauliflower and pumpkins have also now increased. The prices of tomatoes have gone up drastically. The government should look at the poor people and do something for them to control vegetable prices.
It is becoming tough for us to buy vegetables." A local resident told ANI that during the past 15 days, the vegetable prices have gone very high. The ginger was 100 rupees per kg a month ago and today it is 300kg. The prices of cauliflower have also increased many fold in 15 days.
Sharing his ordeal, he said, "It is becoming tough because our kitchen cost is very high. We used to get vegetables for 100 rupees for survival and now we are not able to get it for 200 rupees. It has become very different for the poor." This year there has been heavy rainfall.
Most of the crops have been damaged and supply is very low. There has been continuous rain, the supply is very low, and the demand is the same. "The vegetable is supplied to other parts of India from Himachal.
If the rain continues the prices will continue increasing," said Amit Sood, a local vegetable trader Retail tomato prices surged up to ₹140 per kg in the Delhi-NCR region due to the supply disruption from the producing centres owing to rains. On Monday, Wholesale prices of tomato at Azadpur Mandi, Asia's largest wholesale fruits and vegetables market, were ruling in the range of ₹60-120 per kg, depending on the quality. Mother Dairy's Safal was selling tomato at ₹99 per
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