Quality turmeric arrived in all the four markets for sale.

“After few days, good quality turmeric arrived for sale in the four turmeric markets and the buyers showed keen interest in buying such good quality turmeric and they also purchased few bags of medium variety turmeric. But the buyers did not quote increased price for the good quality turmeric, as they are having very poor quantity of upcountry demand from the turmeric merchants there”, said RKV Ravishankar a trader.

After four days the arrival of turmeric was improved and on Friday 4,000 bags of turmeric arrived for sale and the sales was very encouraging as 70 per cent stocks were sold.

Good quality finger turmeric was improved by ₹150 a quintal in all the markets and the root variety by ₹100 a quintal.

At the Erode Turmeric Merchants Association Sales yard, finger turmeric sold at ₹5,455 to 8,711 a quintal. The root variety sold at ₹5,339 to 7,881 a quintal. Of the arrival of 1,943 bags of turmeric 907 bags were sold.

At the Regulated Marketing Committee, finger turmericsold at ₹7,279 to 8,569 a quintal. The root variety sold at ₹6,899 to 7,869 a quintal. Out of 1,061 bags of turmeric kept for sale 720 bags were sold.