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Sophos: Government sells tomatoes at 90/kg, to cover more areas in Delhi, Gurgaon & Faridabad | India News
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NEW DELHI: The government owned consumer cooperative, NCCF, sold nearly 18 tonnes of tomato in Delhi and Noida on Friday. Top officials in the consumer affairs ministry, which directed the NCCF and NAFED to procure and sell tomatoes at discounted price, said this will continue till retail prices come down.
The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India (NCCF) sold tomatoes at Rs 90 per kg while the retail price of the key kitchen commodity in Delhi was Rs 178 a kilo on Friday. A consumer affairs ministry official said that on Saturday mobile vans selling tomato will be deployed at Bata Chowk in Faridabad; IFFCO and Hero Honda Chowk in Gurgaon and 17 other locations in Delhi including Lajpat Nagar, Greater Kailash, North and South Avenue, Mayur Vihar, Mayapuri, Pitampura, Timarpur, Trilokuri, Dwarka, Nangloi and Shalimar Bagh. The sale will start at 11 am.
From Sunday onwards, the NCCF will also start selling tomatoes through 100-odd Kendriya Bhandar outlets in the national capital. The NCCF is also in talks with Mother Dairy about the sale of tomatoes at discounted rates through their 400-odd Safal retail outlets in Delhi-NCR so that “the outreach can be extensive and purchasing of tomatoes would be easy for the consumers”.
On the first day of market intervention by the central government to bring some relief to consumers, about 20 mobile vans were dispatched to areas such as Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Pusa Road, CGO Complex, Nehru Place, Govind Lal Shika Marg, Adarsh Nagar, JJ Slum at Wazirpur, and Dhodhapur Shivmandir. In Noida, three mobile vehicles were deployed in Noida Sector- 78 and Pari Chowk near Greater Noida.
Officials said the quantity will be increased to more than 20 tonne on Saturday.
As per the government data, the average all-India retail price of tomatoes was at Rs 117 per kg on Friday and the maximum rate was Rs 244 a kilo in Hoshiarpur in Punjab. The prices were lowest at Rs 40 a kg in South Salmara Mankachar in Assam.
Meanwhile, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) also began selling tomatoes at a discounted rate of Rs 90 per kg in Patna. NAFED brought a truckload of 20 tonnes of tomatoes from Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. Though the procurement and transportation cost is around Rs 121 a kg, the agency is selling the kitchen item at Rs 90 a kilo.
The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India (NCCF) sold tomatoes at Rs 90 per kg while the retail price of the key kitchen commodity in Delhi was Rs 178 a kilo on Friday. A consumer affairs ministry official said that on Saturday mobile vans selling tomato will be deployed at Bata Chowk in Faridabad; IFFCO and Hero Honda Chowk in Gurgaon and 17 other locations in Delhi including Lajpat Nagar, Greater Kailash, North and South Avenue, Mayur Vihar, Mayapuri, Pitampura, Timarpur, Trilokuri, Dwarka, Nangloi and Shalimar Bagh. The sale will start at 11 am.
From Sunday onwards, the NCCF will also start selling tomatoes through 100-odd Kendriya Bhandar outlets in the national capital. The NCCF is also in talks with Mother Dairy about the sale of tomatoes at discounted rates through their 400-odd Safal retail outlets in Delhi-NCR so that “the outreach can be extensive and purchasing of tomatoes would be easy for the consumers”.
On the first day of market intervention by the central government to bring some relief to consumers, about 20 mobile vans were dispatched to areas such as Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Pusa Road, CGO Complex, Nehru Place, Govind Lal Shika Marg, Adarsh Nagar, JJ Slum at Wazirpur, and Dhodhapur Shivmandir. In Noida, three mobile vehicles were deployed in Noida Sector- 78 and Pari Chowk near Greater Noida.
Officials said the quantity will be increased to more than 20 tonne on Saturday.
As per the government data, the average all-India retail price of tomatoes was at Rs 117 per kg on Friday and the maximum rate was Rs 244 a kilo in Hoshiarpur in Punjab. The prices were lowest at Rs 40 a kg in South Salmara Mankachar in Assam.
Meanwhile, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) also began selling tomatoes at a discounted rate of Rs 90 per kg in Patna. NAFED brought a truckload of 20 tonnes of tomatoes from Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. Though the procurement and transportation cost is around Rs 121 a kg, the agency is selling the kitchen item at Rs 90 a kilo.
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