Over Rs 75 per kg for tomatoes, Rs 50 per kg for onions: 29% households cut down vegetable consumption

The survey said 29 per cent retired of 14,619 consumers included successful the survey said that they “have reduced depletion somewhat to enactment wrong budget”, 42 per cent stated that they “have kept depletion the aforesaid and paid much portion 29 per cent stated that they “have kept depletion the aforesaid but buying from sources that merchantability astatine little prices”.

Nearly 56 per cent of 15,260 consumers who responded to the survey said that they bought “tomato for Rs 75 oregon more, murphy for Rs 40 oregon much and bulb for Rs 50 oregon more” portion 29 per cent said that they bought “tomato for Rs 50- 75, murphy for Rs 30-40 and bulb for Rs 40- 50” and 6 per cent of respondents said they bought “tomato for Rs 50 oregon less, murphy for Rs 30 oregon little and bulb for Rs 40 oregon less”.

Though the authorities has stepped successful to procure bulb and merchantability it astatine subsidised prices, this payment is restricted to residents successful a fewer cities. The authorities should either guarantee specified interventions are astatine a nationalist level oregon supply alleviation by reducing petrol and diesel prices to assistance with the fund compression faced by galore households.

Vegetable prices person spiked successful astir cities owed to disruption successful supplies and harm to respective crops. While the summertime monsoon is over, capable supplies of galore crops similar onion, tomato, greenish leafy vegetables is not arriving successful the wholesale markets starring to higher-than-normal prices successful the retail market, specified that the cardinal authorities done state-owned organisations is providing subsidised onions successful cities similar Delhi.

Annual retail inflation, based connected the All-India Consumer Price Index (CPI), roseate to 5.49 per cent successful September, a nine-month high, owed to higher nutrient prices. This is the highest retail ostentation complaint since December 2023, erstwhile it was 5.69 per cent. It was 3.65 per cent successful August.

Food inflation, which makes up fractional of the user terms scale basket, roseate to 9.24 per cent annually compared to a 5.66 per cent emergence successful August. It stood astatine 5.42 per cent successful July, 9.36 per cent successful June, 8.69 per cent successful May and 8.70 per cent successful April, according to the Ministry of statistic and programme implementation (MoSPI).

The outgo of a home-cooked vegetarian thali surged 11 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) successful September, driven by rising rootlike prices, standing bureau Crisil Ltd said successful a report. It states that the emergence successful the vegetarian repast outgo tin beryllium attributed to crisp increases successful the prices of cardinal vegetables, including onion, murphy and tomato, which relationship for astir 37 per cent of the cost.

“Vegetable prices displayed mixed trends successful September. Onion prices surged by 53 per cent, potatoes by 50 per cent and tomatoes by 18 per cent on-year owed to little bulb and murphy arrivals and dense rainfall impacting the herb output successful Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra,” the Crisil study stated.

The survey received implicit 40,000 responses from households located successful 351 districts of India. While 63 per cent respondents were men, 37 per cent respondents were women, it said. While 40 per cent respondents were from tier 1 centres, 27 per cent were from tier 2 and 33 per cent respondents were from tier 3, 4 and agrarian districts.