Farmers growing tomatoes need to think twice before sowing the seeds since the wholesale prices of tomatoes have crashed by nearly 54 per cent (on an average) between November 2017 and 2018. With nearly a 78 per cent dip, Maharashtra recorded the maximum drop in tomato prices followed by Gujarat (73.38 per cent), Karnataka (70.53 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (69 per cent) and Jammu & Kashmir (67.21 per cent).
Even as consumers did not benefit much from this price variation, the farmers suffered the most from crashing prices of their vegetable produce. This is evident since most of the farmer protests during 2018 were around perishable produces like tomatoes and other such crops.
— source downtoearth.org.in | 01 Jan 2019