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Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
By Our Staff Reporter
The Mahabub Mansion market, which usually bustles at this time of the year with red chillies, onion and tamarind, was almost bare. A few RTC buses and some tractors were the only modes of transport. And, it showed in the figures. There were just 5,000 bags of onion, 153 bags of red chillies and 366 packets of tamarind as against the general range of 15,000-20,000 bags, 400 bags and 1,000 packets respectively on an average daily. ``That's because we are getting goods from the nearby areas like Tandur, Shankarpally, Sangareddy, Narayanapet, etc. Produce from Karnataka and Maharashtra has been almost nil,'' said Ramakrishna Reddy, secretary of the Agriculture Market Committee. During the last nine days of the strike, the average number of onion bags daily has come down to 5,000-6,000 as against the 24,000 on April 12. While the general flow is 70 to 80 lorries, it decreased to 10 or 12, that too mainly on other modes of transport. ``We have not seen any sign of withdrawal of strike here yet. Each shop is making a loss of Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 4,000 everyday,'' said Krishna Sadanand, an onion merchant. ``There will be fluctuation in the prices only when goods come in. But since there is no guarantee on distribution, business has come to a standstill,'' bemoans T. Venkatrama Rao, a red chilli merchant. Badly affected were local distributors and daily wage labourers. "When we tried to move within the twin cities our vehicles were stopped. We are suffering a loss of Rs. 1,000 daily,'' said Surender Reddy, who owns three tractors. "We are being paid wages only when there is work. We are wiling away our time waiting for trucks to arrive,'' lamented Yadagiri, a labourer.
Rise in vegetable, fruit arrivals
However, there had been a steady rise in vegetable and fruit arrivals in wholesale markets today. At Bowenpally, the average prices per quintal were: Potatoes Rs. 410, tomatoes Rs. 650, brinjals Rs. 350, ladyfinger Rs. 600, green chillies Rs. 750, cluster beans Rs. 450, French beans Rs. 1,300, cabbage Rs. 375, green mangoes Rs. 625, green plantain Rs. 320, etc. In the retail market at Monda, there wasn't much change in the prices, save for French beans being sold at Rs. 16-18 per kg and capsicum at Rs. 18. Otherwise, onion was priced at Rs. 5-6 a kg, potatoes Rs. 5-6, ladyfinger Rs. 12, tomatoes Rs. 12-14 and brinjals Rs. 6 per kg. Different varieties of mango fruit were being sold between Rs. 11 and Rs. 12 a kg at the fruit market in Gaddiannaram that saw as many as 300 goods vehicles coming in. The Wholesale Fruit Commission and Merchants' Association expect the market to be packed by day after tomorrow when the trucks would start arriving. The A.P. Transport Joint Action Committee, while accepting that all goods vehicles were yet to come onto the road, alleged that vested interests were at work disrupting truck services in Moosapet, Rajendranagar, Kukatpally, Mahabubnagar and other places. The State Government had agreed to all its demands except for removal of service fee and the JAC had urged police to ensure that truckers did not face any problem in transporting goods, the JAC joint convener, Vimal C. Gupta, said.
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