Excess rains causing the vegetable prices to decrease in Chennai
Posted on: 30/Jan/2018 9:45:57 AM
Vegetables are consumed by most of us every day is known and people buy these vegetables from the market in Koyambedu regularly. It is now said that excess rains have led to decrease in the prices of many vegetables in the Koyambedu market. It must be noted that this excess rains is brought by the north-east monsoon over the southern peninsula.
From Rs 160 per kg since the month of November the price of sambar onions have fallen to Rs 35 per kg and Tomato rates have taken a steep fall from the previous price of Rs 20 per kg to the current rate of Rs 8 per kg. This decrease in the rates would be present until the second crop of the year begins.
Mr M. Thyagarajan, Koyambedu vegetables, fruits, flowers trader welfare association president shared his thoughts and said previously the market used to get 400 to 450 loads of vegetables every day and this has increased to 550 loads now. He also threw light on how the yield from the first crop is usually highest and this was due to the cold weather plus also due to availability of water in excessive amounts. He hinted that the rates of vegetables would be on the rise from 20th of February when the second crop arrives.
It is worthy to note that vegetables like turnip, radish plus others like chayote, beetroot, okra, snake gourd are rich in water content and they are available at the rates of Rs 5 to Rs 10. It must be noted that the price of drumstick has remained same since November and the rate is Rs 50 to Rs 60 per kg. One important point to note is first crop yield is 100 kg per acre and second crop yield is 50kg per acre.
On Monday for vegetables like mullangi and nookol the wholesale rate was Rs 5 and retail rate was Rs 10.
