Two farmers from Manjoor have taken a huge cut to their profits just to supply tomatoes to the local market at relatively affordable prices.
The brothers, Raman and Puttuswamy, residents of Manjoor, a town in the Nilgiris located around 30 km from the district headquarters in Udhagamandalam, had sowed tomatoes for the first time in almost two decades, when the huge increase in tomato prices started rising.
According to Raman, the duo would typically sow crops that are popular in the Nilgiris, such as potatoes, beetroot, cabbage and garlic. However, this year, they decided to plant tomatoes and began sowing in April of this year on around 50 cents.
