Prices soar kitchen budgets on tight squeeze impacts common man
Prices soar kitchen budgets on tight squeeze impacts common man
With the soar in prices, markets are seeing a change in the spending habits of the consumers. Instead of fresh tomatoes, people have shifted to buying small cartons of tomato puree, after tomatoe prices soared to Rs.100 kg. From fresh ginger people are going in for single-use sachets of ginger paste and loose cumin powder to tiny 7-gm sachets.
Tomato puree pouches are available in smaller packs of 200 gm, which cost just Rs 25, she added.
The incessant heavy rainfall is also the one reason for the surging prices of vegetables fruits, and spices.
Cumin powder, which was
Rs 550 a kg a month ago, has shot up to Rs 800 a kg recently. Similarly, ginger too has witnessed an exceptional increase in the price.
The shift can also be linked with the fact that these commodities are an essential part of the staple Indian diet. “Cumin powder is an essential ingredient in most vegetarian and non-vegetarian Indian dishes. With its price soaring many housewives have preferred to go in for sachet packs that are less expensive. Soma Dey, a homemaker
According to a grocery store owner, cumin powder sachets from different brands were till recently available for as little as Rs 5 for 9 gm. last week, all cumin powder sachets in his store were sold out. The fresh lot that has arrived costs the same but the quantity is now
7 gm
He further stated that there has been a sharp fall in sales of loose cumin powder and a corresponding rise in demand for small sachet packs. Similar is the case with small ginger-garlic paste sachets. They have been disappearing off the shelves swiftly, thanks to the high prices of ginger..
As per director of a Chinese firm, that has been making sauces and food products for eight decades, stated that the demand for tomato puree has hit unprecedented levels in recent days. An 800-gm pack of tomato puree pouch costs Rs 60, which is way more economical than cooking with tomatoes. They can maintain the price becaus they acquire the annual stock in winter when tomato prices are at their lowest.
All said a common man is hit below the belt with soaring prices of vegetables fruits and spices.
News input KV Raman
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