The ongoing spell of rains may have been pouring woes for those living in low-lying areas of towns and cities and may have helped sowing/transplantation of Kharif crops gain momentum in Telangana, but the delay in their intensification has already done the damage for cultivation of pulses.
The decline in their extent not only in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh but also in neighbouring Karnataka and Maharashtra, from where the State gets most of its supplies, as also in other States appears to have adverse impact on the prices of processed pulses already as they have soared by 10% to 20% during the last three-four weeks.
“Price of processed redgram, one of the key ingredients in daily diet, has increased by ₹10 to ₹15 a kg even in street-corner shops where it has reached ₹145 to ₹155 a kg”, a retail vendor Babulal said. It has gone up in the range of ₹155 to ₹175 a kg in supermarkets too.
