As a result, prices have dropped to a mere Rs 20-22 per kg (€0.24-0.27), leaving little cash for the farmers, said Prabhakar Chandane, chairman of the Maharashtra Pomegranate Growers Research Association.
“The oily spot disease has been caused by the incessant rains in the state. It has been an incessant drizzle and this has caused the disease in the fruit,” he said. Pomegranates this season have also been affected by the constant strikes in the state, initially the farmers stir, then the transport strike and the Maratha agitation because of which farmers could not bring their produce to the market and suddenly arrivals have now increased rate drops,” Chandane further explained to financialexpress.com.
