Vegetable scorch the pockets in Vijayawada
Vendors, shops sell vegetables at double the rates in view of low yield
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-04-29 05:39 GMT
Vijayawada: Vegetable prices have soared along with the soaring mercury this summer. Vendors in local markets along with rythu bazaars in city are selling at inflated prices, thereby adding to the woes of the poor and middle-class people. In rythu bazaars, all the vegetables prices have gone up in the last two weeks. French beans now cost Rs 95 per kg and capsicum Rs 34 per kg. The local variety of tomato costs Rs 17 per kg.
Besides, onion, beans and carrots cost Rs 22, Rs 30 and Rs 20 per kg, respectively, in local rytu bazaars. Likewise ridge gourd stands at Rs 16 per kg and bitter gourd at Rs 17 per kg.
Vegetables production lowers every summer, leading to price increase, informed a marketing department official. He said that the department has not taken any steps to supply the vegetables at normal prices. Vegetable are being sold at almost double the price in private shops and supermarkets and by private vendors.
Most people depend up on private vendors as rytu bazaars are faraway from various local colonies. Nearly 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes of vegetables are in short supply in city rytu bazaars, the official added.
Most people from various colonies are purcha-sing vegetables in priva-te shops, said one Appa Rao, resident of Boyapatai Madahvarao street in Mogulrajapuram. Several unemployed persons also peddle vegetables by the roads in various colonies. A retired engineer K. Raja Rao urged local legislators to open rythu bazaar centres in every colony by appointing two or three vendors for each colony.