Janata curfew, lockdown, push merchants, fruit and vegetable growers to penury
The Hindu
Three-hours window in Dakshina Kannada and four-hours window in the State insufficient for produces reach customers.
Farmers raising vegetable and fruits and merchants dealing with them, wholesale as well as retail, have been hit hard with the fortnight long ‘Janata Curfew’ and the ‘lockdown’ that began on Monday with the limited time available to dispose of the produce. Though the government has said there would be no restrictions on agricultural activities, trading the produce was limited to the essentials purchase window of 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., thus blocking the entire supply chain. While farmers were unable to harvest and sell off their entire produce on time, wholesale merchants were unable to sell the produce on time to retailers due to the time restriction.
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