Rs1-a-kg price in market depresses them
(The Hans India) The vegetable farmers-cum-vendors dumped 20 tons of tomatoes into the underneath of Manair bridge protesting against the lowest prices offered for their crop from the buyers at Sircilla town in Karimanagar district on Thursday.
The price for tomatoes was Rs10 per kg was slashed to Rs 1 per kg on Thursday making frustrated farmers dump the tomatoes making it useless for everybody.
The vendors on the other hand claimed that due to sudden increase in in-flows made them to slash the price as they don’t have the storage facilities.
This has been the scene throughout the district as there is no minimum support price offered to tomatoes and most farmers, who sell tomatoes themselves, were in distress. There are no cold-storage facilities to store tomatoes, was the general comment by the vendors.
A farmer Chandraiah said that tomato should get minimum support price from the Government and it should be regulated. He blamed that the vendors and middlemen were ruining the lives of the farmers, which have become more miserable. Vendor Vajramma said that a lot reserves of tomatoes made the price so low.
The farmers, disappointed curse for their present status as they claim agriculture was never lucrative, not worth for living.
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