Tag: tomato retail price

NEW DELHI: The retail price of tomato is likely to shoot beyond Rs 200 per kilo, an all-time high, due to a prolonged shortage in producer states. Vegetable wholesalers said the kitchen essential was auctioned for Rs 4,100 for a crate of 25 kilos in Uttarakhand on Monday. With commission paid to the mandi authorities, transportation to bring the stock to Delhi and profit added to it, the wholesale price in Delhi's mandis is likely to exceed Rs 5,000 per crate.Sardar Tony Singh, a vegetable wholesale merchant at...