iGrain India - Weekly Review: LentilPrices Fall Due to Sluggish DemandMumbai: Lentil prices saw a decline last week due to sluggish demand for lentil dal. Millers exhibited weak buying interest, putting downward pressure on prices. The availability of imported lentils at ports, combined with increased selling by importers, contributed to the price drop. At the end of the week, prices were recorded as follows:
- Mundra: ₹5900–5950 per quintal
- Hazira: ₹5950–6000 per quintal
- Container (Canada): ₹6150–6175 per quintal
- Container (Australia): ₹6175–6225 per quintal
Delhi: Weak buying by dal millers and fluctuations at the port led to a decline in lentil prices in Delhi by ₹25–50 per quintal. Prices at the end of the week were:
- Small quota: ₹6525 per quintal
- Bundi: ₹6950 per quintal
- Uttar Pradesh: ₹7000 per quintal
- Desi Badi: ₹6650–6750 per quintal
- Ashoknagar: ₹5900–6000 per quintal
- Sagar: ₹5600–6050 per quintal
- Damoh: ₹5700–6350 per quintal
- Indore: ₹6000 per quintal
- Katni: ₹6625 per quintal
- Bareilly small: ₹7100 per quintal
- Thick: ₹6700 per quintal
- Kanpur: ₹6550 per quintal
- Lalitpur thick: ₹5750–5900 per quintal
- Lalitpur small: ₹6100–6250 per quintal
- Barh: ₹6700 per quintal
- Khusrupur: ₹6650 per quintal
- Mokama: ₹6700 per quintal
Lentil Lentil: There were no significant changes in prices for lentil lentil varieties, with prices remaining stable:
- Jalgaon: ₹7500 per quintal
- Indore: ₹7550 per quintal
- Barh: ₹7700–8000 per quintal
- Khusrupur: ₹7700–8000 per quintal