The movement of vegetables and commodities continued to be hit in Tamil Nadu as the indefinite strike by truckers pressing their charter of demands entered the sixth day today.
Though the government has allowed transportation of farm produce, including vegetables by state-owned transport corporation buses, the situation remained grim with prices shooting up, market sources said here.
As against 500 trucks which used to bring vegetables to the city's wholesale market in Koyambedu, supplies came only in around ten buses today, a trader said.
Responding to the nation-wide call, 4.5 lakh trucks operated by members of Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners' Federation have been keeping off the roads since July 20, demanding among others reduction of diesel prices and toll fees.
The strike has affected movement of vegetables and other commodities, traders said.
"Supply of carrot and coconut has already been affected leading to spiralling of prices by upto Rs 20 per kg," a Koyambedu Vegetable market trader told PTI.
If the strike continued, it would lead to increase in prices of all vegetables, he said.
Similarly, the transportation of salt from major producing centres of Vedharanyam, Ramanathapuram and Tuticorin in the state has also been affected.
A salt trader from Vedharanyam said movement of trucks carrying salt had totally stopped in the region, prompting some manufacturers to look at scaling down the production.
"I can say that on an average 300 trucks carrying more than 6,000 tonne of salt move out of Tuticorin, Vedharanyam, Ramanathapuram per day. Totally it has been stopped," a member of the Indian Salt Manufacturers' Association said.
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