This festival season might be a costly affair with vegetable prices being abnormally high for the last month, and escalating rapidly during the last week due to Navaratri.
“Vegetables from Ooty, such as carrot and beetroot are in great demand and are very costly. We get only half the usual supply from Ooty these days,” said N. Satheeshan, who runs a wholesale vegetable shop at Kallai in Kozhikode.
The price of carrots is close to ₹100 per kg or more while beetroot is priced at around ₹70 per kg. “The price of drumstick has soared recently; close to the Pooja holidays,” Mr. Satheeshan said.
