Centre Slashes Tomato’s Price At Rs 70 Per Kg From Thursday

The Department of Consumer Affairs has directed NCCF (National Cooperative Consumers' Federation) and NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation) to sell tomatoes at the retail price of Rs 70 per kg rate from 20 July 2023 in view of the declining trend in tomato prices. The tomatoes procured by NCCF and NAFED had been retailed, initially, at Rs 90 per kg and then reduced to Rs 80 per kg from 16 July 2023. The reduction to Rs 70 kg will further benefit the consumers.

The direction of the Department of Consumer Affairs, NCCF and NAFED had commenced the procurement of tomatoes from mandis in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra for simultaneous disposal in major consumption centres where retail prices have recorded the maximum increase in the last month. 

The retail sale of tomatoes in Delhi-NCR started on 14 July 2023. Till 18 July 2023, a total of 391 metric tonnes of tomatoes had been procured by the two agencies which are being continuously disposed of to the retail consumers in major consumption centres of Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, UP and Bihar.