Quetta, a growing shortage of tomatoes in the country,Pakistan imports tomatoes from Iran
font size="3">Islamabad: The government on Wednesday allowed import of tpmatoes from Iran to arrest the skyrocketing prices iof the vegetable in domestic market.
font size="3">Thousands of tomatoes have reached Pakistan over the past one week ,this can help to overcome the shortage and cost of tomatoes in Pakistan. Hundreds of trawlers have been cleared in the last 5 days.
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Thousands of tomato containers from Iran quit Quetta, but prices have not dropped.
Citizens say that Iranian tomatoes are more fragile and vulnerable than Pakistani tomatoes, but their imports can overcome the current tomato crisis.
One businessman, Mohammad Din, said that Pakistan had no money in the market, so tomatoes were expensive, it would be cheaper in the coming days.
Haji Sirajuddin said that there is no problem for the poor, the government should pay attention to agriculture so that the poor people prosper.
Mehboob Bangalzai said that tomatoes were expensive because of the extinction of Hyderabad and Badin crops.