The Union Government has reduced prices of subsidised tomatoes to ₹70 per kilogramme from Thursday from ₹80 per kg now to provide relief to common man from high retail prices.
The Centre is selling tomatoes to people at a subsidised rate of ₹80 a kg in Delhi-NCR and some other key cities through the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India (NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED).
The all-India average retail prices of tomatoes is ruling at nearly ₹120 per kg, although the key kitchen item is selling as high as ₹245 per kg at some places. In the national capital, the rate has come down to ₹120 per kg.
