Farmers leave tomatoes in fields as price drops to ₹2 a kg

Farmers leave tomatoes in fields as price drops to ₹2 a kg

The farmers said the selling price of one box (15 kg) of tomatoes is anywhere between ₹30 to ₹200 (₹2 per kg to ₹13 per kg) at the Kolar Agricultural Produce Market Committee

Philippines: Farmers dump over 2,000 kilograms of tomatoes they could not sell

Farmers in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya have discarded over 2,000 kilos of tomatoes they could not sell due to plummeting prices. They left the tomatoes by the road. With farmgate prices dropping to just P5 per kilo, farmers said they were incurring heavy losses, unable to cover transportation and labor costs.…