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To check the soaring prices of tomatoes, the central government has directed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF) to procure tomatoes from mandis in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra and distribute them in major consumption centres where retail prices have recorded maximum increase in the last one month, the Department of Consumer Affairs said in a statement...
Tomatoes will be distributed through retail outlets at discounted prices to consumers in Delhi-NCR region by July 14, it added...
The prices of tomatoes have risen 326.13% in the last one month, according to the governments own data..
The periods during July-August and October-November are generally the lean production months for tomatoes, the department said in a statement adding that the month of July, witnesses high tomato prices as due to the monsoon season which disturbs the distribution network and increases transit losses...
Currently, the supplies coming to markets in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and some other states are mostly from Maharashtra especially Satara, Narayangaon, and Nashik which is expected to last till this month end..
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