Wholesale price for good quality carrot& beetroot till July

: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University today said wholesale price for good quality carrot would be around Rs 35 per kg for hill grown varieties and Rs 30 per kg for that in plains till July end advised farmers to take appropriate decision on selling the produce.
As for beetroot, prices would rule between Rs 30 for hill grown varieties and Rs.26 per kg for grown in plains, TNAU said.
The Price Forecasting Scheme in TNAU analyzed wholesale prices of carrot in the last 11 years in Mettupalayam wholesale market and the results revealed the price behaviour.
A total of 9.50 lakh tonnes of carrot was produced in India in 2015-2016 in 0.65, with major growing states being Haryana,Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Assam.

Carrot was cultivated in 3,453 hectares at Tamil Nadu, with Nilgiris alone cultivating in 2,854 hectares and the remaining in Dindigul and Krishnagiri districts in 2015-16.
Arrivals from Malur district of Karnataka to Mettupalayam market has ceased in April itself and the demand for carrot grown in Nilgiris is slightly higher than the last year.
It said beetroot was cultivated in 1,421 hectares in Tamil Nadu in 2015-16.