Heavy rains in the northern States have brought a windfall to tomato growers in Madanapalle.
The tomato growers have begun exporting stocks to markets in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh with first-grade tomato fetching a wholesale price of ₹14 a kg at the Madanapalle market and second-grade tomato fetching ₹10.8 a kg. The total arrival of stocks at the Madanapalle market, said to be the largest in Asia, stood at 1,230 tonnes on Sunday.
From mid-June, tomato prices have started coming down at the vegetable markets in Chittoor, Annamayya, Kadapa, Tirupati, and other parts of the State, with a sudden jump in production from a mere 100 tonnes in March-April to more than 1,000 tonnes a day from June. During this period, the prices too hovered between ₹120 to ₹25 a kg.
