Rains raise vegetable prices, customers feel the pinch

RAIN HAVOC: The vegetable prices going up across the country is an indirect effect of the rains.

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New Delhi: After playing havoc in states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and parts of Karnataka, the rains have now also paved way for a rise in vegetable prices in Delhi.

Many people are being forced to change their eating habits, and stock up on the potatoes due to a spike in vegetable prices.

Says a housewife, Sharmishtha Arora, “Previously when we used to cook rajmas we would put more tomatoes, now we add only one instead of two. It is affecting our taste, but we are looking forward to good times.”

Meanwhile in Kolkata, it is not just the umbrellas that are going up. The heavy rains have led to a rise in fish prices. And the customers are feeling the pinch.

“The supply of fish has stopped due to the rains and the prices have gone very high. Let’s see how much I can afford,” says a customer, Sajal Gupta.

Vegetable prices have risen by 30 to 50 per cent in Mumbai too, following the weekend's rains.

Traders say the unseasonal rains in parts of Maharashtra in May, which destroyed many standing crops, are also to blame.

Prices are not likely to come down until the rains stop.

The vegetable prices going up across the country is an indirect effect of the rains and has affected household budgets too.

(With bureau inputs)