{"id":22998,"date":"2026-07-23T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22998"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:21:42","slug":"tomato-prices-reach-rs500-per-kilogram-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22998","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Prices Reach Rs500 Per Kilogram in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tomato prices have surged further in Karachi, with consumers seeing little relief despite the arrival of imported tomatoes from Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, tomatoes are currently being sold at Rs450 to Rs500 per kilogram in various parts of the city, while some retailers are charging between Rs110 and Rs125 per quarter kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>The reports said traders are selling both Iranian and Quetta-grown tomatoes within the Rs450\u2013500 per kilogram price range.<\/p>\n<p>Some vendors are also offering smaller-sized or unripe tomatoes at around Rs400 per kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers say the continued increase in tomato prices has added to household expenses, while imports from Iran have so far failed to bring prices down significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomato prices have surged further in Karachi, with consumers seeing little relief despite the arrival of imported tomatoes from Iran. According to media reports, tomatoes are currently being sold at Rs450 to Rs500 per kilogram in various parts of the city, while some retailers are charging between Rs110 and Rs125 per quarter kilogram. The reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,46,36],"tags":[3005,215,13191,74,62,13192,13190,4881],"class_list":["post-22998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-consumers","tag-inflation","tag-iranian-tomatoes","tag-karachi","tag-pakistan","tag-quetta-tomatoes","tag-tomatoes","tag-vegetable-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23000,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions\/23000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}