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Talking to PTI, Gaykar said during the period, he sold 18,000 crates of tomatoes (each crate comprising 20 kg of tomatoes) at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) at Narayangaon in Junnar tehsil for Rs three crore. Pune Farmer Becomes Millionaire Amid Rising Tomato Prices, Earns Rs 3 Crore in One Month.
A farmer from Pune's Junnar taluka, Maharashtra, claimed to have earned more than Rs 2.8 crore through tomato sales this year. Ishwar Gayakar, cultivating tomatoes on his 12-acre farm for six to seven years, remarked that his success came through hard work. He cultivated tomatoes on 12 acres, selling approximately 17,000 crates priced between Rs 770 to Rs 2311 per crate.
Amid skyrocketing prices of tomatoes across the country, a farmer in Maharashtra's Pune district claimed to have earned more than Rs 2.8 crore by selling tomatoes.