Asif Ahmed, vice chairman of the market committee that manages Karachi Sabzi Mandi has said that purchase of vegetables has gone down 70 per cent due to the lockdown enforced to contain the spread of Covid-19.

"The prices of vegetables in the Sabzi Mandi have fallen drastically," he lamented, adding that even though they had reduced their prices, sellers elsewhere in the city had not done the same.

He added that farmers and traders were facing huge losses because of the decrease in prices and purchase of vegetables.

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