Page 5 - Vegetables

Big can be beautiful too

Since each is the size of a football, every time we have cabbage - and we seem to have it a lot - there is much more of it to go around

Over 56% of Delhi-NCR students low on daily vegetable intake: Icrier survey

The study was based on a survey of 98,596 students in classes 5-12 in 90 schools

Fruits, vegetables export to Kuwait to resume but Kerala has to wait

Indian fruit and vegetable exporters believe that trade could re-start in a couple of days

Intense heat takes a toll on prices of vegetables by upto 45%

Vegetables prices declined by asteep upto 45 per cent over the last two weeks on supply boost following farmers'rush to harvest pre-matured crops amid fears of high spoilage on intense heatand expectations of early season rainfalls.Data compiled by the governmentowned National Horticulture Board (NHB) showed the sharpest i.e. 45 per centfall in the prices of okra (lady's finger) in the wholesale Delhi mandi overthe last two weeks. The vegetable plunged to trade at Rs 10.75 a kg on May 26from its level of Rs 19.50 a kg on May 12.Similarly, bitter gourd inMumbai's wholesale mandi plunged by a steep 22 per cent to Rs 18 a kg on May 26from Rs 23 a kg two weeks ago. Vegetables prices declined not only in thewholesale mandis but in retail markets also. Bitter gourd in retail Mumbai andChennai markets, according to NHB, declined by 25 per cent and 27 per centrespectively in the last 15 days.Experts believe that the pre-seasonstormy rainfalls in many parts of India have prompted farmers ...

Select vegetables' prices crash on farmers' rush for sale

Huge arrivals from Gujarat and MP increase supply; farmers fear higher spoilage on rise in temp

Vegetable prices fall on better supply, output estimates

Traders attribute the decline to above-normal monsoon rain; sowing is estimated to have risen 10-15% so far this season

Vegetable prices rising on crop damage reports

Scorching heat burns flower pods thereby reduces yield to a fourth

Vegetable prices rise 20-25% as temperatures soar

Vegetable prices tend to be on higher side during summers due to supply shortage