The Centre will vend tomatoes at Rs 80 per kg from Sunday, as against Rs 90 per kg before, to give relief to people from high prices of the crucial kitchen item in retail requests. On Friday, the Centre started to vend tomatoes at a blinked rate of Rs 90 per kg in Delhi- NCR through mobile vans. further metropolises were added on Saturday.” There has been a drop in the noncommercial prices of tomatoes due to the intervention of the government to vend it at a concessional rate of Rs 90 per kg, at several locales in the country where the prices were ruling exceptionally high,” an sanctioned statement said.” After are-assessment of the situation from across 500 plus points in the country, it has been decided to vend it at Rs 80 per kg from moment, Sunday, July 16th, 2023,” it added
Deals started on Sunday at several points in Delhi, Noida, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Patna, Muzaffarpur and Arrah through cooperatives NAFED and NCCF, the statement said. The trade of tomatoes at blinked prices will be expanded to further metropolises from Monday depending upon the prevailing request prices at similar locales.” The government of India is committed to furnishing relief to the consumers,” the statement said. The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India( NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India( NAFED) are dealing tomatoes on behalf of the Centre through mobile vans.