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With not much buying taking place in the market, prices of aromatic and non-basmati rice ruled almost unchanged on Friday.
The aromatic varieties may witness a fall in the coming days as demand is not picking up, said Mr Praveen Kumar, a rice miller.
The Pusa1121 varieties continued to rule flat — Pusa1121 (steam) quoted at Rs 5,000 a quintal, Pusa-1121 (sela) ruled around Rs 4,000, while Pusa-1121 (raw) was trading at Rs 4,600 a quintal.
Duplicate basmati quoted at Rs 3,500-3,580 a quintal. Pure basmati (raw) ruled at Rs 6,500 a quintal.
Prices of brokens of Pusa 1121, Tibar was quoted at Rs 3,100-3,300, Dubar quoted at Rs 2,500-2,600 and Mongra at Rs 1,900-2,125.
After witnessing a decline earlier this week, non-basmati varieties managed to maintain their previous levels amid slack demand.
Sharbati (steam) quoted at Rs 3,000-3,050, while Sharbati (sela) ruled between Rs 2,800-2,865 a quintal.
PR11 (sela) ruled at Rs 2,000-2,175, while PR-11 (raw) quoted at Rs 1,950-2,130 a quintal.
Permal (sela) ruled between Rs 1,700-1,940 a quintal, while Permal (raw) traded at Rs 1,900-2,095 a quintal.
Brokens of the Sharbati variety, Tibar was quoted at Rs 2,350-2,480, Dubar at 2,100-2,200 and Mongra around Rs 1,750 a quintal.
Rice cultivation
The area under rice cultivation trails by 45,000 hectares this year; the total area would be 12 lakh hectares against 12.45 lakh hectares last year.
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