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Latest National News : Election in the air rots onions, potatoes
The unusually long gap between the day of polling and day of counting in Uttarakhand has had a queer fallout - it has adversely affected potato and onion prices.
Stocks of the famous pahari aloo (mountain potato) are being sold at half the market price by wholesalers while unsold produce is rotting due to anomalies in temporary relocation of wholesale potato dealers in Dehradun. The potato and onion wholesalers are suffering financial losses amounting to lakhs in addition to which their inability to sell potato seeds to farmers is likely to affect the next harvest of this important vegetable.
The wholesale vegetable market in the State capital has been temporarily acquired by the authorities for establishing strongrooms to store the electronic voting machines from the 2012 Vidhan Sabha election. Wholesale potato dealers have been temporarily shifted to the new Mandi extension which lacks basic amenities like power, water supply and sanitation.
Lack of information about this development means none of the regular customers including farmers is visiting these dealers due to which they are forced to sell their stocks at about half the market price or let them rot in the godowns.There are 12 potato and onion dealers in the wholesale vegetable market here of whom two were removed from the Wholesale Potato Dealers Association.
The unusually long gap between the day of polling and day of counting in Uttarakhand has had a queer fallout - it has adversely affected potato and onion prices.
Stocks of the famous pahari aloo (mountain potato) are being sold at half the market price by wholesalers while unsold produce is rotting due to anomalies in temporary relocation of wholesale potato dealers in Dehradun. The potato and onion wholesalers are suffering financial losses amounting to lakhs in addition to which their inability to sell potato seeds to farmers is likely to affect the next harvest of this important vegetable.
The wholesale vegetable market in the State capital has been temporarily acquired by the authorities for establishing strongrooms to store the electronic voting machines from the 2012 Vidhan Sabha election. Wholesale potato dealers have been temporarily shifted to the new Mandi extension which lacks basic amenities like power, water supply and sanitation.
Lack of information about this development means none of the regular customers including farmers is visiting these dealers due to which they are forced to sell their stocks at about half the market price or let them rot in the godowns.There are 12 potato and onion dealers in the wholesale vegetable market here of whom two were removed from the Wholesale Potato Dealers Association.
