Ludhiana: With heavy rainfall causing havoc in Bihar and Maharashtra in the past few days prices of vegetables in the retail market of the city have gone up. Tomatoes, green peas and lemon continued to remain on the higher side of the price graph even in the last week of July.
These are vegetables which are being mostly transported from several parts of Maharashtra and Bihar to city retails vegetable markets through road transportation for local consumers but after heavy rainfall damaged most of the crop grown in these states, the prices shot up by 20-30% in the past one month. Under these tough circumstances, the prices of ginger, garlic, broccoli and coriander further hit the pocket of the middle class families.
Arjun Prasad, a vegetable vendor at the busiest vegetable markets of the city, said, “Due to flood-like situation in several districts of Bihar as well as Maharashtra, vegetables transported from these places are affected the most as the prices of tomato, green peas, lemon and coriander have gone of reach for middle class families. These are selling above Rs 70 per kg in most of retail markets of the city.”
Apart from that, the festival season will soon start which will make it tougher for middle class families as the chances of further increase in prices of onion, capsicum, okra and cucumber.”
Another vendor from Jalandhar bypass vegetable market Amit Kumar said, “At present, the prices of vegetables are not stable because this year most of the crops of Bihar, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh have been damaged due to heavy rainfall. Till the next crop is grown, which will be in winter, the vegetable market will continue to face the problem of high prices of vegetables.”
He further said, “Another reason for the increase in the prices of vegetables was continuous hike in prices of petrol and diesel in the past several days which has made road transportation costlier. Besides, middlemen or agents are earning huge profits as they have started selling vegetables stored in the cold storage.”
Meanwhile, residents, especially women who have to run the kitchen, are upset over the rising prices of the vegetables.
Speaking on the issue, Anjali Verma said, “After ginger and garlic, now the prices of tomatoes have started disturbing the budget of middle class families as it has almost doubled now. There is no option but to leave onion in vegetable preparation or use it in small portions.”
Another local household woman, Jaspreet Kaur, a resident of BRS Nagar, said, “On one side there is recession in the industrial and business sector after outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and people are losing jobs, while on the other side this regular hike in vegetable prices is giving tough time to people.”
“It has become a regular affair to see the prices of of vegetables go up as there is no check of government authorities on the working of people indulging in sale and purchase of vegetables. Our monthly budget is likely to get affected on this account,” Kaur added.
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