Not just tomatoes, prices of Chillies, Ginger other vegetables also surge. Check state-wise prices here

With prices of Tomatoes are red-hot and burning a hole in the common people's pockets, the prices of other vegetables too are rising. Many attribute the sharp rise in the vegetable to heatwaves in key tomato-growing areas and heavy rains, as well, as disruption in supply chains. Tomatoes, which have a relatively lower shelf life, have put pressure on their prices. Not just tomatoes, but the prices of other vegetables like cauliflower, chillies, ginger too have shoot up.

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A vegetable seller from the Ghazipur vegetable market said that due to the rain, the supply of tomatoes have decreased. He also complained that people are not coming that often to buy vegetables. While speaking to news agency ANI, he said, “It has rained and so the supply has decreased. People are not coming that often. If you want good quality tomatoes it will cost you around ₹120. Don't know when will the prices come back to normal.”

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Lets take a look state-wise price here

Himachal Pradesh: 

In Shimla, tomatoes were being sold at ₹100 whereas other vegetables, including capsicum, pumpkin, cauliflower, and brinjal are also selling at higher prices. Babli Salotra, a Shimla local told ANI that “The prices are very high. The prices of cauliflower and pumpkins have also now increased. The prices of tomatoes have gone up drastically. The government should look at the poor people and do something for them to control vegetable prices. It is becoming tough for us to buy vegetables.” A local resident told ANI that during the past 15 days, the vegetable prices have gone very high. The ginger was 100 rupees per kg a month ago and today it is 300kg. The prices of cauliflower have also increased many fold in 15 days. Sharing his ordeal, he said, "It is becoming tough because our kitchen cost is very high. We used to get vegetables for 100 rupees for survival and now we are not able to get it for 200 rupees. It has become very different for the poor." This year there has been heavy rainfall. Most of the crops have been damaged and supply is very low. There has been continuous rain, the supply is very low, and the demand is the same. "The vegetable is supplied to other parts of India from Himachal. If the rain continues the prices will continue increasing," said Amit Sood, a local vegetable trader

Delhi:

Retail tomato prices surged up to ₹140 per kg in the Delhi-NCR region due to the supply disruption from the producing centres owing to rains. On Monday, Wholesale prices of tomato at Azadpur Mandi, Asia's largest wholesale fruits and vegetables market, were ruling in the range of ₹60-120 per kg, depending on the quality. Mother Dairy's Safal was selling tomato at ₹99 per kg on Sunday. Online retailer Otipy was quoting tomato hybrid at ₹140 per kg. As of 6th July, BigBasket is selling 1 Kg tomatoes for over ₹140. The price of Cauliflower approx 400-600 gm is priced at ₹80-100. 

Mumbai: On 4 July, the price of tomatoes crossed ₹150 in Mumbai, a report by Mumbai Live has stated. Apart from tomato, prices of other vegetables like ginger, chillies, coriander also saw surge. The price of 1 Kg ginger is being sold at ₹200-300 while the price of coriander has come up to ₹200-350 per kg, the report stated. Speaking of online retailers like Big Basket, the price of 1 Kg tomato is priced at ₹120 while 1 Kg Ginger costs around ₹302. On Swiggy Instamart, the price of 1 Kg tomatoes cost around ₹100-120, while the price 200 gm Ginger cost around ₹65-80.

Bengaluru: The price of tomatoes in Bengaluru breached ₹150 per kg mark in retail shops, a report by The Hindu has stated. At a J.P. Nagar retail shop, the prices of tomatoes cost over ₹160 per Kg. The report added that a customer took just two pieces of tomatoes after hearing the price. A report by ANI has also reported that a Karnataka-based farmer has alleged that tomatoes worth ₹2.5 lakhs were stolen from her farm in the Hassan district on Tuesday. Dharani, a woman farmer who grew tomatoes on two acres of land, said they planned to cut the crop and transport it to market as the price reached over ₹120 per kilogram in Bengaluru. 

Madhya Pradesh: Owing to incessant rainfall and the fall in the supply of vegetables in the state capital have skyrocketed the prices. Spells of the heavy rain have led to vegetable supply crunch in the city, resulting in an escalation of their prices. Mehboob, who set up a vegetable shop in Bhopal's Vitthal market told ANI, "Coriander, chillies and tomatoes had got rotten due to water, and tomatoes which were earlier being sold at 140 kg were priced at ₹160 kg on Saturday. Tomatoes have been damaged here. Now they are coming from Bengaluru. Chilli, coriander have also been sold in bulk for ₹125 per kg. Tomato is being sold wholesale for 2200 to 2300 rupees per carat."

Bihar: A report by Times of India stated that since the past few days, the price of cauliflower, cabbage, potato and onion too have seen surge. The price of 1 kg cauliflower, cababge cost around ₹60 which was around ₹30-40 per kg in May. Similarly, the prices of onion too have seen surge from ₹20/kg in early May to ₹30/kg in July. On Big Basket, the price of 1 pc cauliflower of 400-600 gm cost around ₹72. The price of 250 gm corriander cost over ₹110 while 1 kg ginger cost around ₹132.

Assam: The vegetable market in Assam's capital city Guwahati has witnessed a significant surge in prices for all green vegetables after the flood hit several districts of the state and damaged crops. Along with tomatoes, the price of every green vegetable is skyrocketing in the markets of Guwahati. Tomatoes are being sold at ₹100 to ₹120 per kg in Guwahati and green chillies at ₹450-500 per kg. The prices of other green vegetables are also high due to floods and rainfall.

West Bengal: Vegetable prices in West Benagl too have skyrocketed with chillies and tomatoes seeing a steep increase of more than 200 percent in the past fortnight. Tomatoes, which used to sell for ₹40 to ₹50 per kg a couple of weeks ago, now costs ₹130-150. Green chillies is now selling for ₹300-350 per kg, up from ₹150 per kg a week ago. Other veggies have witnessed a 30-50 per cent price rise. West Bengal Vendors Association president Kamal Dey told news agency PTI that price rise was due to extreme heat and lack of rains. Meanwhile, state government has taken cognizance of the issue and directed its own retailing network, Sufal Bangla, to deliver fair-price vegetables in the city. Sufal Bangla was charging ₹115 per kg for tomatoes and ₹240 for green chillies.

Jammu: Poor crop yield due to heavy rainfall and landslides over the past few days here has hiked the prices of vegetables such as ginger and tomato, with consumers demanding government intervention to address the issue. The prices of tomatoes is around ₹120 per kg while that of ginger is ₹400 per kg, a customer told PTI.

Odisha: Vegetable prices in Odisha have also reportedly risen sharply in the last 15 days. While tomato is selling for around ₹140-160/kg, green chilly is sold for around ₹200/kg and ginger for ₹300/kg.

India's consumer price index (CPI) inflation eased sharply to 4.25 per cent in May hitting a 25-month low and came under the Reserve Bank of India's upper tolerance limit of 6 per cent for the third straight month. May's retail inflation declined from 4.7 per cent recorded in April 2023 and 7.04 per cent in the year-ago period.

Meanwhile, the opposition has hit out at the Modi government over rising prices and unemployment, saying that people will not buy into the "hollow slogans" of the BJP and will wipe it out of power this time. "Both inflation and unemployment are increasing continuously due to the loot of the Modi government. But the BJP is engrossed in the greed for power," Kharge alleged in a tweet in Hindi. The prices of vegetables are skyrocketing and the unemployment rate in the country has gone up to 8.45 per cent, he said.