ahmedabad amdavadis are going online to shop for fruits vegetables and grocery several entrepreneurs have launched portals to sell fresh fruits and vegetables online targeting a large section of busy working professionals on an average online sabzi mandis sells about 400kg vegetables and fruits daily thus earning up to rs 5 lakh per month the orders are delivered on the same day sold on wholesale price and we also have a buyback policy if the customers want to return their purchase when we started a year ago there were about five orders a day but today we get about 100 orders a day said 37yearold yamini raval who runs sabzi vabzi with her husband anand while buying books clothes jewellery and even electronic gadgets online is common the trend of logging onto the internet to shop for fruits vegetables and grocery has caught up in the city sneha joshi a doctor finds it convenient to shop from online sabziwalas due to her busy schedule i reach home late in the evening and then it becomes difficult for me to buy vegetables from the neighbourhood i find it easy and convenient to shop online as quality produce is delivered within two hours and i can avoid the hassle of daily bargaining said joshi portals such as vegetables on wheels veg on click fresh n pack among others have caught the attention of fancy working professionals who find their preferred vegetables fruits and grocery just a click away iim ahmedabad graduate nirmal kumar has also launched one such venture farm2door i believe that vegetables and fruits can be made available at cheaper rate to the end consumers by eliminating middlemen inflation can be controlled to a large extent by controlling price rise on items of daily use said kumar who plans to start operations soon the recently launched online vegetable market of surat apmc became the first apmc in gujarat through which consumers will be able to order vegetables online a specially developed website has been launched by gujarat chief minister for this initiative there is a lot of demand for organic food online four out of 10 orders that i get are for organic fruits and vegetables said raj patel founder of veg on click most online sabziwalas source their produce from the wholesale markets in ahmedabad by chitra unnithan tnn published on oct 4 2014 at 0430 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app entrepreneurs amdavadis online shopping shopping