India
Farmers of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh have decided that they will not send their Petlawat tomatoes to Pakistan. The tomato grown in this tehsil is very famous in Pakistan and the farmers of Jhabua have decided that their tomatoes might get rotten or might have to be thrown, but they will not send them to a country bearing the terrorists.
After the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organisation of Pakistan suicide-bombed the CRPF personnel in the Armed Forces of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, the entire country is raging with anger against Pakistan.
Everyone is expressing their anger in their own way. Farmers of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh have decided that they will not send their Petlawad tomatoes to Pakistan. The tomato grown in this tehsil is very famous in Pakistan and the farmers of Jhabua have decided that their tomatoes might get rotten or might have to be thrown, but they will not send them to a country bearing the terrorists.
Tomatoes, grown in Petlawad, Jhabua district, are exported to a large number of neighboring countries every year. According to media reports, farmers of Jhabua said that since Pakistan is brutally killing our soldiers, the answer to a brick should be given with stones. The farmers have stopped sending tomatoes to Pakistan. They have in fact made a lot of profit by exporting tomatoes to Pakistan in the last few years. Even after the URI attack three years ago, the farmers had stopped sending tomatoes to Pakistan.
The tomatoes of Petlawad are reddish in colour. Due to the sweet taste of these tomatoes, they is very much liked in Pakistan. This tomato weighs from 50 grams to 150 grams.
The Jhabua farmers have appealed to the Modi government to search for new markets in the Gulf countries or elsewhere to sell tomatoes in the region.
The petalled tomatoes are also sold in India since there's a good yield in Petlawad of Jhabua district. Around 160 grams of tomatoes are produced in around 14,400 square feet of land. If water supply is good, then the production reaches 250 grams. In the whole season, the cost of tomatoes produced in that 14,400 square feet of land is Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000. This includes medicines, wages, seeds, wire, bamboo, twine, manure, carat, transport, etc. The tomatoes grown here go for sale in the mandis of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Ratlam and Gujarat.
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