Cheaper tomatoes! The government will sell them at ₹40 per kg from Sunday.

Cooperatives On August 20, NCCF and NAFED will start selling tomatoes for 40 less per kilogramme. This is because the price of this cooking staple has been going down in both wholesale and retail markets.

Since last month, the Consumer Affairs Ministry has asked the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India (NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) to sell tomatoes at a lower price.

At first, the subsidy rate was set at 90 per kilogramme. As prices went down, the subsidy rate went down, too, so that consumers would get the most advantage.

“The last change to the retail price was on August 15, when it went down to 50/- per kg. As of August 20, the price has gone down even more, to 40 per kg,” a government statement said on Friday.

It said that so far, the two agencies have bought more than 15 lakh kilogrammes of tomatoes, which are being sold to retail customers in the country’s big consumption centres.

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These places are Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan (Jaipur and Kota), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, and Prayagraj), and Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Arrah, and Buxar). NCCF and NAFED buy tomatoes from mandis in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh.