Commodity Online
NEW DELHI: Farm commodity prices have generally remained steady or shown mixed trend over the week ending October 29, 2007, despite the arrival of over 6.44 lakh tonnes of imported pulses.
Prices of wheat at retail level remained steady at majority of the monitoring centers. The price declined at Jaipur and increased at Lucknow, says the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Prices of gram dal have generally remained steady across majority of the monitoring centers. Prices increased at Delhi and Chennai.
Prices of tur dal increased at Lucknow, Jaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata and Shillong.
This happed despite the arrival of over 6.44 lakh tonne of imported pulses have arrived at Indian ports. The arrival was out of 12.18 lakh tonne contracted by STC (3,15,000 T), Nafed (2,60,000 T), PEC (3,87,300 T) and MMTC (2,56,250 T).
Retail price of sugar remained steady over the week across most of the centers, but increased at Lucknow and Bhubaneshwar.
At Delhi, as of Oct. 29, prices of rice, tur dal, groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, milk and onion were holding steady for one week. The prices of wheat and salt have been steady for one month and price of loose tea was steady for the past 6 months.
