Nepal vegetable market: Amid imports dominating, local farmers sell the yields for peanuts

Dhanu Adhikari, a vegetable farmer in Bharatpur-16 of Chitwan in southern Nepal, is now selling tomatoes at Rs 7 per kg at the vegetable market. On a good day, she even gets up to Rs 10 a day.

But, as per her calculations, it costs her Rs 18 to produce one kg of tomatoes as she needs to pay for rent, labour, fertilisers, seeds, production, irrigation, pesticides and wages.