tomato crossed century

last month the price of one kg of tomato was around rs 5, suddenly this month the price hiked to rs 100 for one kg. Tomato is a type of vegetable which cannot be preserved for a longer, but a sudden hike in the price seems like there is some political influence behind the price hike.

You mean to hint that costs incurred pre May16th are being recovered post may 16th. A lot many people believe it and it is also well known that in democracy it is the people who also finance the politicians this way or that way. If recovery is poor or very large many more items may hit a century. Cheers.

Perhaps some political leader and his black marketing agents want to make money by hoarding tomatoes . But in my AP , still it's remaining in half century.

Perhaps some political leader and his black marketing agents want to make money by hoarding tomatoes . But in my AP , still it's remaining in half century.

AP and Telengana together have scored a century in partnership .

Perhaps some political leader and his black marketing agents want to make money by hoarding tomatoes . But in my AP , still it's remaining in half century.

AP and Telengana together have scored a century in partnership .

AP doesn't want to share a partnership with Telengana.

Onion also some times increasing in this range. It is a marketing technique. They want to increase the price of the item so they are indirectly doing it by showing that the supply is less so demand is high so we are increasing the price. Wait for 2 days if any rain comes they will come automatically reduce the price.

I am not sure about the price hike of tomatoes.but sometimes lack of rain and less supply are indeed the reason for price hike.

Fortunately in AP the price rise is not as high as the other parts of the country though we too have shortage of Rainfall.

Tomatoes are yet Rs 60 per kg in Pune, but likely to touch century if the supply is not increased. I think more than rains, it is normally the artificial scarcity created by the agents. On the way to Nashik from Pune, tomatoes are grown on a large scale and many a times I have seen truckloads of tomatoes being dumped in ditches because they could not find markets or did not get proper prices!

Same is the case with onions, big companies like Reliance Fresh buy them in large quantities and hard them in their warehouses creating artificial scarcity and bring them out when prices skyrocket. Now even farmers have started hiding their harvest of onions, I was told by a grocer just yesterday about this fact.

Tomato price may shoot up to Rs 70 to Rs 80. I am not sure the reason behind it may be the delayed monsoon.

last month the price of one kg of tomato was around rs 5, suddenly this month the price hiked to rs 100 for one kg. Tomato is a type of vegetable which cannot be preserved for a longer, but a sudden hike in the price seems like there is some political influence behind the price hike.

Yes, we cannot preserve tomato for longer. Sudden price rise is unexpected. Now people stop using tomato in their diet. Even richer people uses very small quantity of tomato.

one way which can replace tomato to some extent is to use some curd or dahi while cooking the vegetable. It will become tasty.

one way which can replace tomato to some extent is to use some curd or dahi while cooking the vegetable. It will become tasty.

Such substitutes are always there and Indian women are quite ingenious at using them in daily cooking. But nothing beats the natural goodness of fresh vegetables. And another aspect is that, in spite of large scale production there are simply no proper systems being developed to either store them in cold storage or process them for latter consumption. Again a result of poor planning and lack of foresight as far as agriculture is concerned.