Tomato News

Tomato is such a healthy vegetable through which you can prepare so many breakfast options for your loved ones. 

To begin with, tomato sales will start from today (29 July 2024) at the following locations of Gurgaon, Delhi and Noida at the rate of Rs 60 per kilogram.

Realising that by selling tomatoes at such a low price they will not be able to recover labour and transport charges, farmers dumped them on roads or in open areas in the villages.

In addition, NCCF is also continuously doing retail sale of tomato through the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform.

According to the report, in July, the cost of cooking a vegetarian thali at home stood at Rs 33.7 (June rate Rs 26.3) whereas the cost of non-vegetarian home meal was at Rs 66.8 (June rate Rs 60).

On Wednesday, Mother Dairy sold tomatoes Rs 259 per kilo in Delhi, although the price have come down by Rs 10 to Rs 249 per kg in their retail stores today. 

Tamil Nadu Cooperation Minister K.R. Periyakaruppan said that the state government would sell tomato at Rs 60/kg through 500 PDS shops across the state.

The soaring price of tomatoes caused Bansuvada Mahipal Reddy of Mohammed Nagar in Kaudipalli mandal of Medak district to become a billionaire over night.  

Minister of State of Consumer Affairs Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated that prices of tomatoes are expected to come down. Minister said, "With the increase in the arrival of new crops from Maharashtra & MP, tomato's price is expected to come down". The above statement was in response to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha.

In a relief for consumers, who were forced to go off tomatoes after their prices went through the roof across the country, the Centre on Sunday reduced the wholesale price of tomatoes from Rs 90 to Rs 80 per kg. 

National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India (NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) are selling tomatoes on behalf of the Centre through mobile vans.

On behalf of the Centre, tomatoes are being sold via vans operated by the National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India (NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED).

Tomato stocks will be distributed through retail outlets at discounted prices to the consumers in Delhi-NCR region by Friday, Consumer Affairs Ministry officials said.

"I kept hearing about arguments over the tomato price among people. People at my shop too tried to haggle. So to put an end to the constant arguments, I decided to deploy bouncers in uniform at my cart," the vegetable seller said.

In her encounter with the paps, Rakhi Sawant commented on the tomato price rise. 

The company has been investing in ground-breaking solutions to combat seasonal crop issues arising every year resulting in a supply shortage.

Twitter users posted images of a message informing customers of McDonald's that tomatoes are "temporarily unavailable." Therefore, McDonald's would serve its items without tomatoes for the time being. 

The price of tomatoes has skyrocketed from Rs 15 per kg in the first week of May to an astonishing Rs 120-150 per kg in various regions across the country.

Faced with a price pinch, the Tamil Nadu government has started selling tomatoes at a subsidized rate of Rs 60 per kg at ration shops in state capital Chennai in a bid to bring some respite to the consumers amid the price spiral.

Tomatoes will be available at Rs 60 per kg in 82 PDS shops in Tamil Nadu.