Green Vegetable Prices Double On Lower Supply

As per vendors, these prices will increase further in the coming days as they argue "vegetables often become expensive during the rainy season"

As cities and states reimpose localised mini lockdowns to control the spread of the contagion, fruit and vegetable suppliers worry about the impact on their businesses.

Vegetables have started gradually slipping out of consumers' plate due to sharp increase in their prices over the last one month on reduced supply following extended season rains delayed harvesting of new season crop.Green vegetables have become costlier by upto 100 per cent during the last four weeks in both wholesale and retail markets. Not only primary vegetables but also their additives like garlic, ginger and chilly have recorded a sharp increase in their prices which has destabilized common men's kitchen budget. Onion model price has hit the highest in two years trading currently (October 23) at Rs 28 a kg in the benchmark Asia's largest - Lasalgaon - mandi,.While the price increase during this time around is not new but such a sharp increase was never seen in the recent memory. Taking advantage of the situation, doorstep hawkers are selling cauliflower at Rs 120-140 a kg despite its prices continue to hover around Rs 60 a kg near the wholesale mandi here. In the wholesale ...