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Informist, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025

 

By Shreya Shetty

 

MUMBAI – Prices of chana and tur were unchanged, while those of urad rose in key spot markets across the country Wednesday, traders said. Prices of chana remained flat amid stable demand for old stocks of the legume, they said. Prices of tur were also flat due to steady demand for the new arrivals, they said. Urad prices rose due to a rise in prices of imports, they said.

 

CHANA prices in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, were steady at INR 5,700-INR 5,750 per 100 kg, said Aniket Mehta, a local trader said. Prices are steady amid stable demand, he said. The market is still getting old stocks of chana, though the quantity has dropped steadily over the past few months, he said. Prices of chana have been range-bound for some time now and will continue to be so in the near term due to the availability of the imported commodity, he said.

The ongoing imports of chana from Australia, which are cheaper and of better quality than the domestic variety, are preventing any sharp fluctuation in prices, he said. "Any commodity which is controlled by imports, I don't see a huge jump in prices," he said.

 

Prices in the medium term are likely to depend on the final acreage numbers and the pace of imports, Mehta said. As of Friday, chana acreage was up over 5%, at 9.6 million hectares from 9.1 million hectares a year ago, data from the agriculture ministry showed.

 

Prices of chana in Delhi were steady at INR 5,575-INR 5,800 per 100 kg, traders said.

 

Prices of old TUR in Akola, Maharashtra, were steady at INR 6,300-INR 6,850 per 100 kg and new tur was also steady at INR 7,200-INR 7,250 per 100 kg, said Ankit Kedia, a local trader. Prices are flat amid steady demand for the new crop arrivals from Maharashtra and Karnataka, he said. Prices are unlikely to fall significantly even if arrivals of the freshly harvested crop increase as Karnataka, and Marathwada in Maharashtra may see lower output, he said.

 

Prices are likely to be supported by the government's procurement in Karnataka and Gujarat at the minimum support price of INR 8,000 per 100 kg, he said. As such, prices could fluctuate in the INR 7,000-INR 8,000 per 100 kg range between January and March, he said.

 

Prices of tur in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, were steady at INR 7,400-INR 7,500 per 100 kg, according to the India Pulses and Grains Association.

 

URAD prices at Chandausi, Uttar Pradesh, rose by INR 100 from Tuesday to INR 7,150 per 100 kg, traders said. Prices in Jaipur, Rajasthan, also rose by INR 200 from the previous day to INR 6,800-INR 7,700. Prices rose tracking a rise in prices of imports, traders said. 

 

Though the movement in cost and freight rates of imports from Myanmar is likely to determine the price movement of domestic urad in the near term, the availability of imports is also likely to cap a rise in domestic prices, the association said in its weekly report on Monday. Myanmar holds sizeable old stocks, while arrivals of the new crop in India are expected to begin by mid-February. Currently, domestic demand for urad dal, or processed urad, is slightly below normal, the association said. However, demand is expected to improve ahead of festivals in January, it said.  End

 

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

 

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