Severe shortage of vegetable supplies to markets due to adverse weather

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A severe shortage in vegetable supplies to the markets across the country has been reported due to adverse weather conditions.

Authorities at the main wholesale markets in Dambulla, Thabuthegama, Katugastoa, Welisara and several other markets said the supplies had dropped by about 50 per cent in the past two days.

As a result the vegetable prices too have been rising with some of the vegetables being priced at over Rs 300 per kilogram.

Reports from the Kalpitiya area where large scale cultivation of vegetables takes place has been under water for the several days resulting a massive crop damage.

Farmers said they had no alternative, but to watch their crops being destroyed.

Similarly, vegetable crops in the Nuwara Eliya too have been destroyed due to the heavy rains.

(Pix by Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe)

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