Portal with reference to price of onion, potato, tomato

New delhi date. 27 February 2020, Thursday

The government has launched a special portal to develop an early warning system for onion, potato and tomato prices, which will announce the wholesale price estimates for the next three months of all three important agricultural commodities. In the case of welfare of these commodities, the portal will alert the government to take appropriate steps before the price breaks, ”Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal said.

The portal will provide support to the government in providing subsidy to the farmers for consolidating goods and transporting them from the over-flooded area to the consumption point based on the signal received from the portal. These portals will alert the government at the time of the harvest when these commodities prices fall below three years or fall more than fifty percent annually or fall below the benchmark price set by the government so that the government can intervene in time.