After hitting a record high of ₹200 a kg on Monday, the prices of tomato fell to about ₹160 to ₹170 a kg on Tuesday because of marginal improvement in arrivals at the Koyambedu wholesale market.
The wholesale merchants said an additional 30 tonnes of tomatoes were procured from Karnataka on Tuesday. However, the retail price hovered around ₹180 to ₹190 a kg, depending on the quality of tomatoes.
Instead of the normal daily load of 800 tonnes, the wholesale market, which largely depends on supplies from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, received only 250-300 tonnes of tomatoes on Tuesday. The prices of a few other vegetables such as beans (₹90 a kg) and ginger (₹180-₹200 a kg) had shot up because of reduced supplies, said S. Chandran, a wholesale vegetable merchant. Wholesale traders said it would take about a month for the prices to stabilise.
