Price-hike of vegetables

Our Chief minister made surprise visits to some markets in Kolkata to see for herself how high are the prices of vegetables and why they are so exorbitantly high.It's claimed the extremely hot weather and lack of rains even at the end of June are responsible for this sky high prices of vegetables.No or inadequate rains have affected growth of vegetables and scorching heat on the other hand destroy to some extent which are grown.May it be partially true ,but what is very surprising why is the yawning gap in prices the farmers get and the vegetables are sold in the market?Again, why is so much differences in price of the same commodity in different markets in Kolkata.Transport cost can't be the reason as argued some times?There must be some sort of maneuvering some where.It may be the middlemen who pull the string to manipulate prices.In fact, it so happens as there's no control or monitoring of prices by some appropriate authority.It's all left to the businessmen alone.Only when prices become too high there's furor and administration makes some knee-jerk movement to visit markets and make statements to display their concern for common people.No body cares to go deep in to the problem to address it sincerely.What's most unfortunate is the sudden awakening of the administration hardly yield any result.In Left regime too during abnormal price rise ministers visited markets, admonished traders not to horde commodities and sell them at reasonable prices.But it didn't cut any ice.CM's visit too would be only the repetition of the past and nothing else.