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Tomato farmers see red as 3 years of bumper crop pull down prices

Apart from a 35% spike in output, slow pace of capacity addition in food processing sector has taken a toll on farmer incomes

Tomato prices soar to 60-70 per kg due to crop damage in producing states

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The price data maintained by the ministry also showed a sharp increase in prices of tomato in the last one week. Photo: Reuters

Virendra Singh Rawat T E Narasimhan Lucknow/Chennai

Last Updated : May 06 2018 | 12:44 AM IST

Distress in the farm sector has spread from oilseeds, pulses and cotton to horticulture crops. If it was potato a few weeks ago, tomato farmers are now struggling with low prices.

Bumper tomato harvests during the last three years have caused prices to crash across states. Production in 2017-18 is pegged at 22.3 million tonnes, 35 per cent higher than in 2014-15. Prices that fetched handsome returns egged tomato farmers on to take up farming the vegetable in a big way in this season, adding to the glut and price fall.

Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka are the country’s

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