Over €1.5 million is being invested in infrastructural work around the Ta’ Qali fruit and vegetable market (pitkalija), Agriculture Parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes said yesterday.

The investment will go towards rebuilding the road leading to the market which was so bumpy that it sometimes causes damage to produce on its way to market,

Mr Galdes explained that the work had also exposed problems in the water distribution system, a factor which he said would delay work to a certain extent.