Wholesale prices of tomatoes have surged 288% in a month to a high of 140 rupees a kg on Friday, with retail prices still higher, spurring many people to cut back on consumption.
Local vendors are selling tomatoes in price range of Rs 80-Rs 120/kg Delhi NCR gets tomato supply from neighbouring states such as Haryana and Punjab and the hill states.
India’s U-turn on wheat exports is a result of incorrect estimates derived from an archaic crop forecasting system devised 4 centuries ago by emperor Akbar’s finance minister.
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.
Pakistan stopped issuing permits for Indian tomatoes in 2016, since the surgical strikes after Uri, and India's exports fell to Rs 10,000 until January 2018-19 from Rs 368 cr in 2016-17.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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