India: Potato prices spurt as bad weather threatens output

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The price of potato has jumped 25 per cent in the past four days, due to reports of massive damage of the harvested crop because of bad weather. “There has been intermittent rainfall, followed by hailstorms and rapid increase in temperature, which reduced supplies to mandis and damaged the harvested output,” said R P Gupta, director, National Horticulture Research & Development Federation.

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