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The Department of Consumer Affairs on Wednesday directed the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF) to immediately procure Tomatoes from Mandis in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra for simultaneous distribution in major consumption centres where retail prices have skyrocketed in the last one month...
The procured produce will be distributed through retail outlets at discounted prices to the consumers in Delhi-NCR region by Friday, this week, the department said in a release...
"The targeted centres for release have been identified on the basis of absolute increase in retail prices over the past one month in centres where prevailing prices are above the All-India average..
Meanwhile, arrivals of tomatoes 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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