A kilo of tomatoes now costs more than a litre of petrol in the country. Here's why.
BBC News, Mumbai
The conundrum over the tomato in India right now is not whether it's a fruit or a vegetable - it's that it has become expensive, and ridiculously so. The price of the everyday staple has been climbing steeply for the past couple of weeks, and now stands at almost 200 rupees a kilo in certain parts of India - a sharp shift from the usual 40-50 rupees.McDonald's recently made news - not for adding a new dish - but dropping tomatoes from its menu in most of its outlets in northern and eastern India. It cited the unavailability of quality tomatoes "due to seasonal crop issues" as the reason.
The skyrocketing prices have been particularly hard on India's middle and lower classes, who make up the bulk of the population.in the face with a weighing scale for bickering over the price of 250g of tomatoes. In India's holiest city Varanasi, a politician reportedly hired two bouncers to prevent people from haggling over tomato prices at his shop.This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.
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