Indian tomatoes flooding Pakistan, pushing up domestic prices.

[DarK-LorD]

Indian tomatoes flooding Pakistan, pushing up domestic prices.
PTI | Oct 28, 2011, 06.16PM IST

NEW DELHI: Lured by high profits, Indian traders are flooding the Pakistan market with tomatoes, affecting domestic supplies and pushing up prices back home.

Truck loads of tomatoes sourced from Delhi and Nashik are entering Pakistan through Attari-Wagah border in Amritsar daily, traders said.

"As many as 80-90 trucks of tomatoes (each carrying about 16 tonnes) are crossing Attari-Wagah border every day," Rajdeep Singh Uppal, vice-president, Amritsar Export Association said.

This has been happening for over two weeks, he said, adding that the trend is expected to continue for a month.

Rajendra Sharma, a member of Delhi agriculture marketing board, said supply of tomatoes to Pakistan is one of the reasons for continued high retail prices of the vegetable in Delhi at Rs 20-25 a kg.

Rajendra Chug, general secretary of Delhi's Azadpur market (Asia's biggest vegetables & fruits market) said that on average 10-12 trucks laden with tomatoes are heading for Pakistan everyday.

Uppal and Chug said rush of tomatoes to Pakistan is triggered by relatively high prices there because of damage to the crop due to floods in the key producing Sindh region.

Chug said the Indian tomato is selling between Rs 25-30 (Indian currency) a kg in Pakistan. The price of the same vegetable in Delhi stood from Rs 8-15 per kg in wholesale, traders in the Azadpur market said.

Uppal said Indian tomato is selling for around USD 350-400 (Rs 17,850-Rs 20,400) per tonne in Pakistan.

Ajit Shah, president of Mumbai based agriculture export association said around 100-125 tonnes of tomatoes from Nashik is finding its way to Pakistan by road through Wagah.

R P Gupta, director, NHRDF (established by agri- cooperative Nafed for research and improving productivity of agri crops) said tomato production reaches a high level in the Nashik district of Maharashtra between September and October.

It is also the only region during the period to produce the staple vegetable.

Key tomatoes producing regions like Nashik, Pune and Ahmadnagar provide the supplies to the entire northern region including Delhi during the period, Gupta said.

The mild climate in the region during this period is best suited for cultivation of tomatoes, the NHRDF (National Horticulture Research and Development Foundation) director said.

Nearly 2,000 tonnes of tomatoes are arriving in Pimpalgaon market yard daily, Gupta said.

Indian tomatoes flooding Pakistan, pushing up domestic prices - The Times of India

 

[SpArK]

God.. disaster in waiting..


















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[ramu]

Trade is always better. Even if it takes the prices a bit higher in India. Trade overall is a good thing and small inconvenience like price hike should be ignored. Imagine if the tomato crop had failed, the prices in India would be higher in that case.

 

[Splurgenxs]

Food should never be wasted ...by ******* or spoilage..
exporting farmed stuff alway helps the poor farmers who seem to suffering losses if they dont balance there stocks ..as more food inside a country will automatically exceed demand and hence push prices down.
A balance should be met .

BUt on a bigger scale inflation has really a big problem and a multitude of measures are necessary.
Scrutinizing the sales of one crop wont effect it much.They will only provide temporary and short term relef thts all.

 

[jamal18]

Is this invasion by tomatoes?

We should get our cucumber regiments ready.

 

[SivHp]

Is this invasion by tomatoes?

We should get our cucumber regiments ready.

Good move by the traders

 

[blood]

some time back we wanted pakistani onions when onion prices in india were sky high .....now it is pay back time.....

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Evil Indians seem hel bent upon flooding Pakistan with one thing or another.

 

[Nair saab]

Its only till time when some Idiot comes & Posts "If India wants Pakistan to buy those Tomatoes then India should give Freedom to Kashmir"...

 

[great]

Evil Indians seem hel bent upon flooding Pakistan with one thing or another.

hmmm..Jacko, better read the article first.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Flooding in , if there is more of something Prices go DOWN !! not up ... keep flooding more food

 

[Nothing]

Food security is main concern for both the countries. We should develop more efficient way for distributing it across region irrespective of boarders .. and develop more better infrastructure to preserve it ..

 

[Varad]

This should affect only Punjab's prices, not that of the whole country. Anyway, Rs 25/Kg is expensive for Pakistan.
Correction its not expensive . Its 40/Kg here in UP.

 

[Pukhtoon]

Three Days ago the price was 40 Rs/kg and yeasterday when i was buying i bought it 100 Rs/kg

Actually the price is high bcoz of the demand.Coz after a week we got Eid ul azah. i guess thats the reason

 

[vigour]

You are right but in this context domestic prices is in regard to India. So, indian domestic prices are pushing up not pakistan's