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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Tomato

Tomato price solutions aren’t rocket science but India is still crying

India produces nearly 22 million tonnes of tomatoes and consumes about 20 million tonnes. With paltry exports, there should be no price shock.

McD to Modi, inflation to Opposition — tomato prices have spared none. Is it the next onion?

The rising prices have created a market for alternatives to fresh tomatoes. Google trends data shows Indians are turning to tomato puree and ketchup.

Snapdragon genes, anti-cancer properties — purple tomatoes are a superfruit, 14 yrs in the making

These genetically modified tomatoes will soon hit the shelves in US and are said to protect against certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, among other ailments.

Not all food is nutritious when eaten raw. Here are 9 vegetables that are better cooked

Raw food diets are a fairly recent trend, including raw veganism—the belief being that the less processed food is, the better. That's wrong.

Tomato is the new onion as rain damage in southern states doubles prices, no respite soon

Retail as well as wholesale prices of tomato have more than doubled to as high as Rs 80/kg in several places. In some southern cities, prices rose to as much as Rs 140/kg.

Is it brinjal or tomato? No, it’s ‘Brimato’, just like ‘Pomato’ grafted by Varanasi scientists

ICAR-IIVR says each Brimato plant can yield 3-4 kg brinjal and 2-3 kg tomato. It will help grow more in smaller spaces like semi-urban and urban areas, and reduce costs.

Now there’s another virus in Maharashtra, and it’s destroying the tomato crop

Complaints of tomatoes getting devastated by the virus began pouring in from late April but the lockdown has prevented scientists from identifying it and determining its source.

Cherry tomatoes are 80,000 yrs old. No humans were domesticating plants that long ago

For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in two major phases. But maybe the tomato as we know it started as a wild species.

In Udta Pakistan, tomatoes selling at Rs 320/kg for everyone but Imran’s finance adviser

Imran Khan’s finance adviser Hafeez Shaikh insists tomatoes are being sold at Rs 17/kg. He is in charge of Pakistan’s economic policy.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?