Chennai: The heavy downpours and incessant rains in the city over the past fortnight have resulted in vegetables and fruits worth nearly Rs 1 crore going waste. The monsoon fury has forced vegetable traders at Koyambedu to dump sixty-five tonnes of vegetables.
Traders said the dumping of vegetables has also added to the dip in sales already caused by the fact that fewer retailers and customers are turning up at the central vegetable market. All this has led to a sudden rise in prices.
“Most perishable vegetables such as potato, carrot, cauliflower and drumstick arriving from areas like Kadappa, Hosakote near Bengaluru and Salem in trucks could not be unloaded due to the heavy rains on November 13 and 14. And most of the stocks were damaged by the time they were unloaded," said V.R Soundararajan, vegetable trader and a member of the market management committee.
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