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Ahead of Saraswati Puja and Ayudha Puja connected October 1, and Vijayadashami connected October 2, indispensable items for the festivals, including fruits, flowers, ash gourd, puffed rice, banana stems, and different puja materials, flooded the markets present connected Monday (September 29, 2025).
At the Nethaji Daily Vegetable and Fruit marketplace connected the V.O.C. Park crushed premises, ample quantities of items specified arsenic mango leaves, sevanthi (chrysanthemum), marigold, coconut, and sugarcane arrived for sale. Fruits, peculiarly apples and pomegranates, were besides disposable successful abundance. Wholesalers said income of each these items would highest connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025) and Wednesday (October 1, 2025) for the festivals. Retailers person already started purchasing goods from Monday to statesman income astatine their shops the pursuing day.
Traders noted that prices of fruits and vegetables are expected to emergence by 20% to 40% owed to precocious demand, portion a fewer traders, seeking larger profits, merchantability astatine overmuch higher rates. “Since it’s the festival season, we consumers extremity up paying overmuch much for items that are mandatory for celebrations,” said P. Karpagam, a nonmigratory of Moolapalayam.
Sales astatine the Uzhavar Sandhais successful Sampath Nagar and Periyar Nagar, on with different retail outlets, are besides expected to summation implicit the adjacent 2 days. From Tuesday, impermanent shops selling these festival items volition enactment the roadsides, offering casual entree for consumers successful their neighbourhoods. Traders successful Salem besides added that they are acceptable for the large merchantability and person stocked capable products for the festival.
