MUMBAI: Farmers have reaped profits as tomato prices have risen. According to reports,Thukaram Bhagoji Gaikar from Pune, Maharashtra earned one and a half crore rupees in one month by selling tomatoes. A national media reported that he sold more than 10,000 boxes of tomato.

Thukaram grows tomatoes on his eighteen acres of land. A box of tomatoes fetches up to Rs 2,100. He sold about 9000 boxes of tomatoes yesterday. He says that he got a profit of eighteen lakh rupees in this trade.

Thukaram says that others who grow tomatoes have become millionaires. He added that the local farmer's committee made a profit of Rs 80 crore last month.