Throwing vegetables on the road becoming a habit

Sunday’s tomato spectacle shows that cartels seek to charge high prices in the name of farmers, experts said.

Farmer Lok Bahadur Ale of Sindhuli put his sweet orange harvest in a cold store in November when the market price was Rs50 to Rs60 per kg. Four months later when the off season started, he brought his fruits out of the refrigerated warehouse and sold them for double that.