Total ad numbers this week were 388,843, an 11% increase from last week's 351,400 ads. The total number of ads broken out by commodity groups: fruit 203,385 (52% of all ads), onions and potatoes 21,063 (5%), vegetables 161,176 (41%), herbs 975 and ornamentals 2,244.
Curry leaves are the shiny, dark green, aromatic leaves of a tree from the citrus fruit family that release a deliciously nutty aroma when fried in hot oil. A staple of South Indian cooking, curry leaves are used in Indian and South East Asian cuisine in the same way as bay leaves are used in the West.
Curry powÂ­der is a British inÂ­venÂ­tion to imÂ­itate the flavour of Indian cooking with minimal effort. Some curry powÂ­ders, or so the books tell, inÂ­deed conÂ­tain curry leaves, but proÂ­bably only for histoÂ­ric or linÂ­guistic reasons, since dried curry leaves lose their fragrance within days.