Mysore/Mysuru, Jan. 14 -- Festival of Harvest to be celebrated tomorrow

With Sankranti, the Festival of Harvest, being celebrated tomorrow (Jan. 15), markets and shops in the city have been flooded with the yellu-bella (sesame-jaggery), sugarcane stalks, puja items, flowers and other items.

People have been thronging Devaraja Market, Vani Vilas Market and other markets across the city to make purchases for festival.

This year, the farmers have brought sugarcane not only from surrounding villages of Mysuru but from Mandya and neighbouring Tamil Nadu as well. While the prices of commodities varied from place to place in city, each sugarcane stalk was sold at Rs. 50 to Rs. 60 on an average.

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