The monsoon season in Aurangabad, India has caused a substantial gap between demand and supply for locally grown vegetables, causing severe price rises in the last 10-15 days.
'The quantity of green vegetables arriving in the city has almost come down to about one-third of the normal rate,' Usuf Chouhary, president of Marathwada Fruit and Vegetable Association, told the Times of India.
Local vegetable seller Shivaji Adhav gave a detailed account of the price rises he had seen for his produce in the past two weeks.
'Capsicum was available at Rs 35 per kg but today it has gone up to Rs 80 per kg; brinjal jumped from Rs 30 per kg to Rs 50 per kg; cabbage jumped from Rs 15 per kg to Rs 25 per kg in the last fifteen days; cauliflower climbed from Rs 40 per kg to Rs 80 per kg; green chilli went from Rs 40 per kg to Rs 60 per kg and pumpkin climbed from Rs 20 per kg to Rs 30 per kg,' he told the Times of India.
However, Chouhary has expressed confidence that prices would normalise in the next month or so as vegetable crops from neighbouring regions arrive.
This supplementary produce is thought to be heading from Nashik, Pune, Hyderabad, Indore and Nagpur, although there are concerns this could also cause price rises there.
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