GINGER prices in India have started easing, with arrivals picking up across the nation and festival demand for the commodity easing a bit. Fresh ginger currently retails at Rs2,100 ($42) to Rs2,200 a quintal in the terminal market of Kochi and Rs1,600 to Rs1,800 a quintal at the farmgate…READ MORE
The official pointed out that dried ginger accounts for 55% of India’s total sales of ginger. The prices of dried ginger went up to Rs69.38 ($1.61) per kg compared with Rs28.93 per kg last year due to a rise in processing prices as well as higher per unit value of the fresh ginger owing to […]
India’s total imports of ginger, including dried ginger, were at around 12,000 tonnes in the 2007/08 period, down from 13,000 tonnes previously. Dried ginger with an import duty of 30% might flow in with the domestic prices ruling around Rs45 to Rs60 a kg, sharply higher than the import price at Rs30 a kg…READ MORE