After onions, tomatoes denting kitchen budget; 44% Indian households paying over Rs 60/kg for it
Zee News
Tomatoe prices have surged at painstaking rates across states of India as supplies drop due to heavy rain and flash floods, upsetting homemakers to manage their domestic budget.
New Delhi: After soaring onion prices, now retail prices of tomatoes are denting the kitchen budget of the common man across the country.
A survey by LocalCircles has found that retail prices of vegetables, especially tomatoes have surged at painstaking rates across states of India as supplies drop due to heavy rain and flash floods, upsetting homemakers to manage their domestic budget at a time when the earnings of many households across the country have been hit due to the ongoing pandemic.
In Delhi, for instance, many consumers have reported on LocalCircles that they have paid between Rs 70-120/kg for tomatoes in the last 60 days. Prices crossed Rs 100/kg in other large cities like Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai and even in tier 2 cities prices are now over Rs 70/kg. Reports of 50% price increase in prices of tomatoes have come from households across most states of India in the last 60 days.
