date:Aug 08, 2014
ce January 2012, when the government started its latest data series. In the same time, vegetables have gone up by 64 percent.
Last year, it was onion; this year, it is tomatoes; next year, it will be something else, says Nirmala. Every year the story remains the same.
Onion prices surged last year as high as $1.60 a kilogramme, making them more expensive in India than in the United States, where incomes are roughly 35 times higher.
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