India’s Food Ministry fear loss of tomato, onion and potato crops due to erratic weather
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Published Jan 19, 2022
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Erratic weather conditions like rains and hailstorms witnessed recently are likely to hit the yield of key vegetables such as potato, onion and tomato, thus pushing up their prices in the coming weeks, a market intelligence report prepared by the ministry of food processing industries (MFPI) has stated. Currently, mandis’ prices of the key vegetables such as onion and tomato in the producing states are ruling above the prices prevailed a year ago period.
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Potato prices are currently ruling below the last year’s price because of bumper production. The prices could witness a spike because of anticipation of a lower rabi yield. In Maharashtra, the country’s biggest producer of onion, recent rains have reduced production of late kharif crop which according to MFPI report “could cause reduced supply in the later weeks of January and February, 2022”. The benchmark prices of onion at Lasalgaon, Nasik, the hub of trade was Rs 1,850 per quintal against Rs 1,350 per quintal that prevailed a year ago. According to official sources, the retail prices of onion in key cities like Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata have risen to Rs 40 a kg from Rs 33 a kg prevailed a week back. Traders at Azadpur Mandi, the country’s biggest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables, said that rainfall and hailstorm along with cold waves have adversely impacted the standing rabi or winter crop of tomato in Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. The benchmark mandi ...
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