Hyderabad: The Rythu bazaars are losing their clientele as slick super markets come up that are better maintained than the poorly maintained bazaars, lament the farmers who come from the districts to the city to sell their produce.
As of now, the city vegetable markets get three to five thousand customers throughout the day and slightly more on weekends.
Farmers come to sell their produce, and leave the markets only after their stock is sold out, which takes a day or two.
A farmer at the Erragadda market said he used to sell his stock within a day and not much was left over, “but these days we are not getting so many customers, so we are spending more time in the market to sell the produce, and even then some of it is wasted.”
The increase in accessible supermarkets and online delivery of vegetables has cut into the sale of fresh produce in markets, admits an official for the agricultural marketing department, “however, there are regular customers who keep visiting. It’s the new generation that is rarely visible in the markets.”
The farmers, though, attribute the drop in sale to the poor maintenance of market places.
