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Key Takeaway
- Market Price Driving Factors: The price of Tamarind – Chennai is influenced by domestic production, seasonal arrivals, crop availability, and the quality of tamarind supplied to the market. Key demand drivers include domestic consumption, food and spice-processing requirements, institutional demand, export activity, and buying interest from traders and processors. Quality parameters such as pulp content, moisture, seed-to-pulp ratio, colour, sourness, cleanliness and processing quality can create significant price differentials. Weather conditions, harvesting patterns, farmer selling behaviour, inventory levels, storage conditions, prices in major producing markets, transportation costs, import and export policies, and currency movements can further influence market sentiment and contribute to price volatility.
About This Dataset
Tamarind (Chennai) refers to tamarind traded in the Chennai market and used extensively as a souring agent, spice and food ingredient. The quoted value represents the monthly average domestic market price in ₹/kg and provides an indicative reference for tamarind price movements in the Chennai market. Actual prices may vary depending on quality, pulp content, variety, moisture and origin.
Methodology
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