<p>Horticultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society (Hopcoms) is organising a vegetable mela at all its outlets in the city and surrounding places from October 6 to 8.</p>.<p>Speaking to media here on Thursday, A S Chandregowda, Hopcoms president, said the mela was being held to meet the festival demand.</p>.<p>He also said that they want to ensure that citizens do not get tied up in the festive pricing rush.</p>.<p>At the mela 12 vegetable varieties will be sold at Rs 20 a kilo, and five varieties can be picked up for Rs 100. The vegetable varieties offered are brinjal — purple and green, beetroot, pumpkin, cucumber, cabbage, radish, bottle gourd, snake gourd, bitter gourd, bajji chilli and sambar onion.</p>.<p>He said the produce would be procured from farmers at around Rs 15 a kilo. The mela will be held at all 325 Hopcom outlets and stalls at Lalbagh and Cubbon Park on all the three days.</p>.<p>During the last festive mela, around Rs 15 lakh was earned from the sales.</p>.<p>The Hopcoms has 8,000 farmer partners from five districts. B N Prasad, Managing Director of Hopcoms said there had been a 30% wastage of crops because of less demand and that mela would help farmers earn profits and clear their produce.</p>
<p>Horticultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society (Hopcoms) is organising a vegetable mela at all its outlets in the city and surrounding places from October 6 to 8.</p>.<p>Speaking to media here on Thursday, A S Chandregowda, Hopcoms president, said the mela was being held to meet the festival demand.</p>.<p>He also said that they want to ensure that citizens do not get tied up in the festive pricing rush.</p>.<p>At the mela 12 vegetable varieties will be sold at Rs 20 a kilo, and five varieties can be picked up for Rs 100. The vegetable varieties offered are brinjal — purple and green, beetroot, pumpkin, cucumber, cabbage, radish, bottle gourd, snake gourd, bitter gourd, bajji chilli and sambar onion.</p>.<p>He said the produce would be procured from farmers at around Rs 15 a kilo. The mela will be held at all 325 Hopcom outlets and stalls at Lalbagh and Cubbon Park on all the three days.</p>.<p>During the last festive mela, around Rs 15 lakh was earned from the sales.</p>.<p>The Hopcoms has 8,000 farmer partners from five districts. B N Prasad, Managing Director of Hopcoms said there had been a 30% wastage of crops because of less demand and that mela would help farmers earn profits and clear their produce.</p>