date:Mar 07, 2019
2.0 million in excess of the country's requirement roughly estimated at 8.0 million. The price of potatoes remains mostly - except during the early harvest of a new season- so low that the growers incur losses. For the past two consecutive years farmers were compelled to feed their unsold potato to cattle. In some areas farmers did not bother to release their stock from cold storages because the market price of potato was lower than the carrying costs and other expenses involved.
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