What can be inferred about tomato prices from the passage about Sunita’s vegetable market in Pune?
Read the passage: Every evening Sunita buys vegetables from a market near her flat in Pune. In early winter she noticed that tomatoes, which had cost eighty rupees a kilogram during the monsoon, were selling for barely twenty. The seller explained that farmers in nearby districts had all harvested at the same time, and lorries full of tomatoes were arriving at the wholesale market every morning. Some traders, he added, were even leaving unsold crates beside the road. Sunita bought three kilograms and made a large batch of chutney to store in jars. She remembered that the previous year the same thing had happened, and that prices had climbed again by late spring.
Correct answer B. They tend to fall when the supply is much larger than usual.
Prices dropped when many farmers harvested at once and lorries flooded the market, implying that a large increase in supply pushes prices down.
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