date:May 20, 2015
ey import from places such as Maharashtra.
Indias annual output for two years has been about 19 million tonnes, despite uneven rain. About 40 per cent of the sowing is in the kharif season. Till the new crop arrives, stored ones feed the market. If the monsoon or new arrivals are delayed, prices surge in the period. At present, the market is being fed with the rabi crop and prices have increased only gradually in the past two months, by 10-15 per cent. At Nashiks Lasalgaon mandi, one of the lar