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The soaring tomato prices in India have led the Uttarakhand residents living near the India-Nepal border to go that extra mile just to purchase tomatoes, TOI reported...
Nepal government's efforts to incentivise farmers to encourage growing vegetables instead of grains as part of crop diversification, has proved to be beneficial for most of them as they realised monsoon in India surges vegetable prices...
The farmers in Nepal were provided with seeds, fertilizers, polyhouses among several other agri subsidies due to which many Nepalese farmers started growing seasonal and non-seasonal vegetables...
Stating cross-border as something common, Kamal Joshi, a resident of Darchula in Nepal said to TOI that armers have been growing cauliflowers and spinach and supplying to Indian markets whenever theres a shortage or price rise.. A Nepalese vegetable trader, Surendra Kumar in conversation with TOI said that apart from residents, traders have also been buying vegetables from them at wholesale rates...
Nepali traders prefer dealing in Indian rupees as it means more Neplai money for them," TOI quoted Sankar Dhami, a Nepali resident...
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