 "After onions, tomato sells at Rs 80/kg; rice to get pricier too")
If you were cooking curry without onions, now you may also have to give tomato a miss. And soon, you can forget about making up for all that by consuming more rice as well.
After some relief last week, onion prices have peaked again. And now to add to that, high demand has also pushed up tomato prices to Rs 80 per kg at several places across Delhi from Rs 35 per kg.
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Even as the retail price of onions remains at around Rs 60 per kg in most cosmopolitan markets and the selling price is as high as Rs 100 per kg in parts of the north-east region, the open market price of tomato has shot up to between Rs 64 and Rs 80 per kg in the national capital, notes a Hindu report.
At a time when high vegetable prices have pushedinflationto a seven-month high,rice prices have also increased by 10-30 percent. According to reports, the price hike has been triggered by a decline in paddy production in the eastern states and Andhra Pradesh this year.
Floods and incessant rains in major rice producing states such as West Bengal, Odisha,Biharand Andhra Pradesh during the harvesting period have affected the paddy crop.
With prices climbing up, gangs of robbers are hijacking milk tankers of GCMMF, looting onion trucks and killing the drivers across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and the National Capital Region.
Next, it won’t be surprising if mafias start looting rice and tomato trucks too.