Production of vegetables to get back to normal after 3 months - Waibuta

The Permanent Secretary for Agriculture, Uraia Waibuta says people need to understand that the vegetables grown at the Sigatoka Valley also sustained damages.

This comment follows the increasing number of complaints regarding the increase in vegetable prices after Tropical Cyclone Winston.

Waibuta says most of the vegetables come from the Sigatoka Valley.                   

He says the increase in price of vegetables is a matter of supply and demand and it is expected to take nearly three months for production to get back to normal.

Waibuta says to rectify the $8 million damage sustained, they are giving out vegetable seedlings to those who were affected by the cyclone.