Tomato prices go through the roof

Farmers shifted to other vegetables as they could not realise price in past 9 months: Farmers' body

Tomato prices breached the Rs 100 per kg-mark in Mumbai and Delhi on Tuesday due to severe shortage of supply.

In Mumbai, prices of tomatoes have shot up  to Rs 150 a kg in the retail market while in Ahmedabad and Delhi it is around Rs 100 per kg. The lack of supply has impacted the prices, traders said. Karnataka is the second-largest producer of tomatoes. It supplies to the markets in south India, West Bengal and Bangladesh. In the past six-nine months, tomato farmers had price realisations of less than Rs 5 per kg, making it unviable for them