Vegetable prices up across the country

Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 11:02 [IST]

New Delhi, Oct 07 2007: It"s not just onions anymore. Prices of all the vegetables across the country have risen by 25 percent since last month.

Prices of key vegetables like onion and potatoes have doubled over the past year, tomatoes cost almost five times of what they did last October and other edibles are also much costlier than they used to be. All this is throwing family budgets into disarray.

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