date:Nov 29, 2021
While recently, the price of tomatoes has shot up owing to crop failure due to bad weather, the area under cultivation has come down. Tomatoes are mostly cultivated at Madukkarai, Thondamuthur and Kinathukadavu blocks in the district. They are now grown in 1,288 hectares here, down from 1,700 hectares three years ago.
One of the reasons for the decreasing cultivation acreage is the poor price tomatoes fetched a year ago. Last year, farmers dumped tomatoes on fields after the prices they fetched