NCCF and NAFED to sell tomatoes at Rs 40 per kg from Sunday

To bring tomato prices further in the market, two cooperative organisations NCCF and NAFED will sell the commodity at a reduced rate of Rs 40 per kilogram from Sunday, 20th August 2023. Prices had gone up to Rs 250 a kilo, although it has come down substantially recently. In Delhi NCR markets it is hovering around Rs 60-80 per kg in retail markets.

Since last month, the National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India (NCCF) and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) have been selling tomatoes at a discounted rate on behalf of the Consumer Affairs Ministry to contain the price rise. Initially, the subsidised rate was fixed at Rs 90 per kilogram which had been successively reduced in line with the decline in prices in order to ensure benefits to the consumers. The last downward revision of the retail price to Rs 50 per kg was on August 15.

Till date, over 15 lakh kilograms of tomatoes have been procured by the two agencies and are being sold to retail consumers in major consumption centres in the country, it said. These locations include Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan (Jaipur, Kota), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj) and Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Arrah, Buxar). NCCF and NAFED are procuring tomatoes mainly from from mandis in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.