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Tomato and onion growers are a worried lot as the bumper harvest has led to a crash in prices in the state. The Kolar district fruits and vegetable growers..
A significant drop in prices due to a huge harvest has taken away midnight sleep of Tomato and onion farmers in Karnataka. Onion dropped to Rs 2 per kg.
Kolar (Karnataka) [India], June 27 (ANI): Karnataka farmers dumped tonnes of mangoes on the roadside near Srinivasapura of Kolar district due to a steep fall in the prices of certain varieties of the fruit.
Price crash and fungal infection force growers to dump quintals of mangoes on highway
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Last Updated: Jun 27, 2021, 04:04 PM IST
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Karnataka State Mango Development and Marketing Corporation Limited chairman K V Nagaraju said most of the crop destroyed this time is Totapuri variety though other crops suffered minimum losses.
There was unexpected rain and hailstorm in the district causing severe damage to the crops.
Mango growers in Karnataka s Kolar district have dumped many quintals of mangoes following the Anthracnose fungal infection and crash in mango prices, a farmer leader said. Mango growers are in distress in the district due to terrible losses. With no aid coming from the government, farmers have dumped loads of mangoes by the roadside in some parts of Srinivasapura in the district, Kolar District Mango Growers and Marketing Association president Neelaturu Chinnappa Reddy told P T I.