The prices of onions, tomatoes and other vegetables have increased considerably in recent weeks. Despite the embargo, the prices of onions have increased by 60% in certain pockets of the country last weekend. The price of tomatoes increased by 20%. Potatoes are perhaps the only plant food basket of the common man that is reflected in lower prices.

Precipitation on Himachal and Punjab are expected to delay the harvest of potatoes two weeks to give breath to the traders and farmers, with the previous year’s harvest is still in cold storage. “Prices are the lowest level in the production bumper 2010-11 campaign.

We expect farmers to get a break until the new crop from the hilly areas has been delayed. Prices to remain stable, “said the Federation Jalandhar-based seed production of farmers Bhatti Chief Sukhjit. Jalandhar In markets, the different Jyoti recovers Rs 4 to 4.50 kg and Rs Pukhraj a difference of 3 to 3 50 per kg, traders said Rinku Khuranna, adding that rates have increased by 50 pais for the last two weeks.

Dr. RP Gupta, director of the independent National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation, said the onion retail prices were high, even after an export ban. “On the wholesale market Nashik, onion sells for Rs 10 per kg but the retail price is Rs 25 per kilo. Without public scrutiny of retailers, prices increased sharply, “he said, adding that 10% of the production of 145 lakh tonnes were exported in 2010-11 in India.

About 40 trucks, each carrying 16 tonnes of onions, will arrive in Delhi from Indore and Nashik daily. Nashik Onion is the wholesale price is Rs 14 to 16 kg and onions a lot Indore is Rs 17 per kilo. Onions from Rajasthan, which sells for RS 12 kg with daily arrivals of more than 60-70 trucks.

“Prices are lower than the previous year. If it rains Hubli, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Belluno, the crop can be damaged and the price could increase,” said Delhi’s Azadpur market-based retailers Narayan Das Hemant Trading Company. Retail prices rose by Rs 16 per kg Bengal RS 26 per kilogram last week, appreciated approximately 62%.

“Supplies have been soft in the past fortnight has pushed up prices at the end of the details. If this trend continues, prices will rise again in the holiday season that followed,” said a trader in the market Posta Kolkata onion.

In addition, consumers must pay more tomatoes, an important part of Indian cuisine. Prices of tomato R 15 to 20 kg in September last year, went up to Rs 30 per kg. Traders said prices have risen due to damage to crops in Bangalore and Maharashtra due to the rains. Approximately 30 trucks Narayangaon and arrive in Delhi, Nashik, where the wholesale price is RS 14 to 15 kg.

Nashik-based trader said Rajinder Dagda Pipalgaon supplies Nashik Mandi district has been at least three lakh boxes (one box of 20 kg) and prices are stable at 10 rupees a kilo last week of 4 rupees per kilo in the second week September. “We expect prices to remain stable or increase slightly in the coming days,” he said.

All producers of vegetables in India president of the Association Gadhave Shriram said that farmers were not getting much despite the high retail prices. “Intermediaries play a major role in jacking up prices,” he added.