BENGALURU: La Tomatina is a popular celebration observed in Spain’s Valencia, where individuals shower each other with tomatoes and even enter a tomato battle – all for enjoyable. Going by the increasing cost of this modest red vegetable all throughout Karnataka over the last couple of weeks, you will be pardoned to believe La Tomatina is “Nah, so inefficient!” The veggie, rather a staple throughout families, has actually seen a 200% increase in its rate. On Monday, a kilo of tomatoes was priced at Rs 125, up from Rs 40 in the 3rd week of May. This sharp increase has actually been credited to interruption in products from the tomato-growing districts of Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Ramanagara, Chitradurga and Bengaluru Rural. The Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) backyard in Kolar, among the biggest tomato trading centers in the nation, saw a tomato cage (15kg box) being cost Rs 1,080-1,100 on Monday. In Bengaluru, the dog crates were gotten by traders for a much greater rate. “The trajectory of tomato rates is stunning. What was readily available for as low as Rs 15 per kg in the retail market 2 months earlier is now costing more than Rs 100 per kg,” a veggie trader in the main enterprise zone of Bengaluru stated. “While it is a bumper for tomato growers, the end-users are at the getting end as they are being required to spend more,” he included. Rs 125/kg: Rising costs offering tomato purchasers a problem in Karnataka Tomato life span in transit now 42 hrs According to Kumaraswamy, the gardening department deputy director, Kolar district, which cultivates tomatoes
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