Within a week´s period, price of split pigeon pea (rahar ko daal) has increased by Rs 45 per kg to reach Rs 140. Similarly, the price of broken lentil (rato daal) has gone up by Rs 10 to Rs 108, while split black gram (maas ko daal) costs Rs 95 per kg now, up Rs 10, and split mung beans (muung ko daal) now sells for Rs 100 per kg, up by Rs 15. [break]
Wholesalers have attributed the price hike to short supply triggered by long drought in Nepal and India.
“The long winter drought has destroyed most of the crops in Nepal and India. On top of that, to cater to the rising demand in India, pulses produced in Nepal were exported to the neighboring country. This further aggravated the problem here, pushing its prices up,” Parmatma Prasad Agrahari of Shital Enterprises, Pokhara, told myrepublica.com. “Prices have not stabilized yet and it may further increase in the coming days.”
Apart from pulses, prices of dried beans have also gone up.
In the last few weeks, prices of gram and dried green pea have increased by Rs 8 per kg each to touch Rs 66, while prices of cowpea (bodi) and red kidney beans (rajma) have gone up by Rs 10 per kg each to Rs 72 and Rs 90, respectively.
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