Rain effect: Tomato prices soar to ₹80/kg, onion ₹50/kg in Punjab, Haryana - Hindustan Times
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Rain effect: Tomato prices soar to 80/kg, onion 50/kg in Punjab, Haryana

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India, Chandigarh
Aug 23, 2019 01:43 AM IST

Prices of tomato and onion have doubled to 80 and 50 per kg in Haryana and Punjab this week due to supply shortage caused by heavy rains in the region and several other parts of the country, according to traders.

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Prices of other key vegetables such as peas, cauliflower and beans have also surged sharply as heavy rains damaged crops in both these states and the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh.

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Onion is selling at around 50 per kg in the two states and their joint capital Chandigarh.

“Just a week ago, onion was selling at 20-25 per kg and prices have now doubled. There is reduction in supply of onion in the northern region from states like Maharashtra from where bulk supplies come,” traders said on Thursday. Parts of Punjab and Haryana recently witnessed floods and crop fields over hundreds of acres were inundated.

Traders said tomato prices doubled from 40 to 80 per kg, peas cost 90 per kg to 120 per kg, cauliflower at around 100 per kg from 60-70 per kg earlier, beans price jumped to 90 per kg from 50 per kg.

Bottle gourd was selling at around 50 per kg as against 40 per kg earlier, carrot rates have gone up from 40 per kg to 60 per kg, okra was costing 60 per kg as against 40 per kg earlier, traders said.

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