Bengaluru: Summer makes beans costlier than chicken
A kilogram of beans now cost ₹180 in Bengaluru as bad weather causes a drop in the yield. With demand for this vegetable remaining high, the price of this veggie has crossed the kilogram cost of chicken, ₹180 against ₹160 for the chicken.
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Though one would imagine that this rise in price benefits farmers, this is far from the truth. As a winter vegetable, yields for beans are always been depressed in summer. But the unusually high summer of 2016 have driven yields even lower, causing large losses to Karnataka farmers.Â
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Local sources claim vendors are still buying the beans at a lower price and re-selling them at inflated rates prices.