Why McDonald's dropped tomatoes from Indian menus

2023-07-15 08:45

A kilo of tomatoes now costs more than a litre of petrol in the country. Here's why.

The conundrum over the tomato in India right now is not whether it's a fruit or a vegetable - it's that it has become expensive, and ridiculously so.

The price of the everyday staple has been climbing steeply for the past couple of weeks, and now stands at almost 200 rupees (£2; $3) a kilo in certain...