In Chennai the vegetable prices have gone up 30% with the arrival of summer
Posted on: 07/Apr/2018 10:09:47 AM
How would you react when you get up in the morning hearing the news that the vegetable prices have increased. Shocking right!!
The latest news is the vegetable prices at the neighbourhood stores have gone up by 30 % with summer arriving now. It is now said that rising temperatures have led to fall in the groundwater levels and finally reduction in the crop yields.
People go to Koyambedu wholesale vegetable market to purchase vegetables and this market received 400 to 450 truckloads of vegetables daily three months ago. On Friday, 6th April 2018, this market received just 350 truckloads of vegetables.
At the Koyambedu wholesale market the price of green beans has shot up to Rs 30 to Rs 50 per kg from the previous rate of Rs 15 to Rs 20 per kg in the three months. It is shocking to note that at the neighbourhood retail stores on Friday the green beans were sold at the rate of Rs60 per kg.
It is revealed that the yield from the year second crop between April to June is 30 percent less than the yield from first crop harvested from December to March.
It is important to mention that the prices of veggies like tomato, beetroot, radish, cauliflower and turnip shot up by 30 %. There is also slight decrease in the prices of sambar onion, capsicum, brinjal etc.
Mr P. G. M. Sukumar who is the treasurer of Koyambedu Wholesale Trader’s Welfare Association expressed his views and said from the third week of April month the prices of all vegetables would increase by 10 %.
He also explained how sufficient rainfall this year would make the prices of vegetables increase gradually. In the last year prices of the vegetables started to increase from the third week of March itself.
During the recent northeast monsoon except for coastal Andhra other parts of southern peninsula received normal rainfall. Last year in the month of April price of tomato was Rs 18 whereas in this year the price is just Rs 10 to Rs 12. Last year the price of carrot was Rs 35 and in this year the price is Rs 15 to Rs 20.
