New Delhi: The wholesale prices of key vegetables, potato, onion and tomato, fell by up to Rs 50 per lots yesterday on fresh supply amid restricted buying.
Marketmen continued supply from producing regions mainly kept the vegetable prices towards downward side.
Arrival of 140 trucks of potato, including 110 trucks still in cold-storages, created adequate supply.
Potato Agra and Sambhalpur inferior quality quoted lower at Rs 225-275 per 80 kg lot while superior quality traded at Rs 250-325 per 80 kg respectively.
Potato Simla quoted lower by Rs 50 at Rs 600-750, while Haldwani price remains flat at Rs 800-825 per 80 kg lot.
Onion Nasik also dropped by Rs 50 at Rs 250-300 per 40 kg lot.
On the other hand, Rajasthan varieties remained marginally up at 200-250, with the total arrivals of around 90 trucks.
Tomato Simla also moved down by Rs 25 at Rs 200-300 per 25 kg box and Maharashtra quality traded in the range of Rs 200-250 per 25 kg box.
Vegetable prices slips on increase supply
Date: 2008-07-11




