Click to play videoMumbai: Being a vegetable lover is proving costly for the monsoon-hit Mumbaikar and the misery is likely to continue till rain gods relent.
With crops across the state damaged and losses running into hundreds of crores, Mumbai's vegetable market is feeling the heat.
A 70 per cent cut in supply has led to a 20-30 percent hike in vegetable prices.
“Because of the floods, the farms are ruined, and highways are shut. So where there was 500 kilos of vegetables coming in, now, with difficulty, there's a 100,” a vegetable seller, S P Agrahari, says.
If the supplier is running into losses, the buyer is also finding vegetables fast disappearing from his dining table.
"It's getting expensive. There's not enough coming in, and what's coming in is sometimes spoilt. The price too is double or treble," a consumer Satyavan Mahadeshwar says.
The prices of all essential vegetables have shot up. For example: wholesale prices for cabbage have gone up by Rs 22 per kilo, cauliflower is dearer by Rs 15 per kilo, peas prices have gone up by Rs 20 per kilo and bitter gourd is up by Rs 20 per kilo.
With rains continuing unabated, suppliers have warned that Mumbai would have to make do with escalating veggie prices and poor quality produce.
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