Don’t stick to expensive carrot, says Bandula

Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardena has called on people to refrain from buying expensive vegetables if they cannot afford them and instead buy less expensive vegetables.

He said that due to a poor harvest, vegetables such as carrot, beans and capsicum are sold at high prices. He urged the people to buy less expensive vegetables and said there was a campaign against the government over the increasing vegetable prices.

Here are the prices of some of the vegetables at the Mardana market yesterday: green chillies Rs. 300 a kilo, capsicum Rs. 200, beans, carrot and beetroot Rs. 150, Brinjal Rs. 100, snakegourd and Cabbage Rs. 80, radish Rs 70, cucumber Rs. 60 and pumpkin Rs 70.