Today I visited the Kalimati Fruits and Vegetables Market. Because this market is one of the biggest fruits and vegetable markets in Nepal. Because it covers more than 70% demand for fruit and vegetable in Kathmandu valley. Also, this is the main center of the fruit and vegetable market of Nepal; from here price of the fruit and vegetable will determine. All The fruits and vegetables which grow nearby in Kathmandu; will bring here to sell. Even from India export the fruits and vegetables to Kathmandu first come here.
Every day thousands of people go there to buy and sell fruits and vegetables. This is the place to buy and sell those fruits and vegetable items in bulk, wholesale, and retail as well. From here most of the shops in Kathmandu valley; all the fruits and vegetables will supply. All the people nearby there go to buy fruits and vegetables for each time to cook. I also used to go in this market to buy necessary fruits and vegetables from this market because we can buy them in this market at a cheaper price.
Here are different sections to buy and sell fruits and vegetables. To buy in bulk there is a different place, to buy in wholesale there is a different place, and to buy retail there is a different place. Even there is a small place to sell a little number of vegetables nearby the main entrance. So that this place is for everyone who wishes to buy fruits and vegetables at a reasonable price. But i always go to the retail section because I never buy in bulk.
Kalimati Fruits and vegetable market is a government-protected fruit and vegetable center. That is why this market is under the minister of Agriculture and the Department of food and agriculture marketing service. As government fixes the price of all the items which are available here. The fixed price is for wholesale and bulk purchases only. Because of the government place, we can buy here is cheaper than at another vegetable market in Kathmandu.
Inside this market, there is a section where people can buy fish so that this is the place to supply fish in the Kathmandu valley. All the fish here is coming from the Tarai part of Nepal and from India too. But fish from India is dominating all these markets because Nepal has not had such a big farm that can produce a big number of fish. So that most of the fruits, vegetables, and fish in the Kalimati fruits and vegetable market are coming from India.
