Steady trend prevails in Chennai foodgrains market

Saturday, December 31, 2011, 14:43 [IST]

Chennai, Dec 31: The prices of thoor dal and urad dal declined while that of other commodities remained unchanged in the wholesale foodgrains market here during the week under review.

Opening the week at Rs 5,700, an increase of Rs 100 Per quinal over the previous close, urad dal, however, failed to hold on to the gain as it slipped to Rs 5,500 on Wednesday and settled the week at the same rate.

Thoordal opened weak at Rs.6,000 against its previous close of Rs.6,100 and traded at the same level throughout the week.
Moong dal (Rs.6,400) gram dal (Rs.4,000) sugar (Rs.2,850) wheat (Rs.1,750), Maida (Rs.1,550) and sooji (90kg)(Rs.1,850) remained unchanged at the previous week closing rates.

PTI

Topics: food inflation, chennai, tamil nadu

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