Prices of flowers drop sharply in Dindigul wholesale market
The Hindu
Farmers hit by closure of shrines, lockdown on Sunday
The Tamil Nadu government’s decision for a total lockdown on Sundays and closure of shrines on three days in a week has severely hit farmers as prices of flowers fell n Dindigul on Saturday.
According to a flower merchant Ponnammal at the wholesale market, following the order to close down temples, churches and mosques from Friday to Sunday, the footfall to the shrines had come to a standstill since Friday.
Normally, about 40 metric tonnes of different types of flowers like jasmine, rose, ‘arali’, ‘sampangi’ and among others grown in and around Chinnalapatti, Yagapanpatti, Narasingapuram, Perumal Koil Patti, Adikaripatti and Siluvathur hamlets, arrived here in the market. Merchants from as far as Kerala and Puducherry and other parts of TN procured flowers and transported them by road and rail.