Native tomatoes, which are cultivated in large areas near Kinathukadavu in Coimbatore is usually sold here.
Coimbatore: Supply of tomatoes goes down in Kinathukadavu market; farmers face a huge loss. This is because the price for tomatoes is not profitable.
Native tomatoes are cultivated in large areas near Kinathukadavu in Coimbatore. Here, the tomatoes are growing with surplus groundwater as a courtesy of abundant annual rains last year. Due to this, tomatoes were cultivated in large quantities with the help of the drip irrigation method.
The Kinathukadavu market gets excessive quantities of tomatoes and are majorly sold for a good price usually. But in the current times, the rate of native tomatoes has gone down to Rs 70 - Rs 90 for 15 kg of tomatoes. This has saddened the farmers who do not get the right price for their produce. So the farmers decided not to pluck the ripe tomatoes leading to the insufficient stock of tomatoes in the Kinathukadavu market.
According to today's market rates of Kinathukadavu, 1kg native tomatoes were sold for Rs 7 which is a great loss for the tomato farmers.
Native tomatoes are cultivated in large areas near Kinathukadavu in Coimbatore. Here, the tomatoes are growing with surplus groundwater as a courtesy of abundant annual rains last year. Due to this, tomatoes were cultivated in large quantities with the help of the drip irrigation method.
The Kinathukadavu market gets excessive quantities of tomatoes and are majorly sold for a good price usually. But in the current times, the rate of native tomatoes has gone down to Rs 70 - Rs 90 for 15 kg of tomatoes. This has saddened the farmers who do not get the right price for their produce. So the farmers decided not to pluck the ripe tomatoes leading to the insufficient stock of tomatoes in the Kinathukadavu market.
According to today's market rates of Kinathukadavu, 1kg native tomatoes were sold for Rs 7 which is a great loss for the tomato farmers.