The Indian sesame seed markets stand at the cusp of the new crop harvest. The planting numbers in the 4 major states – Gujarat, Rajasthan, UP and MP totaled 11.31 lac hectares /1.13 Million Hectares in 2022 compared to 10.94 lacs / 1.09 Million Hectares in 2021. This is a small drop from last year. …
Until last week we saw peak arrivals of sesame seed at about 2000 tons per day on an average in practically all the market yards of Gujarat. The quality of the material is very good as we were not subject to the vagaries of weather like we usually are during the winter crop. This quality …
The new year began with the new variant of the Covid Virus for many of us around the world but luckily, we are seeing speedy recoveries and far fewer fatalities considering that a large part of the global population is vaccinated. The virus seems to have taken a toll on Sesame markets as well since …
We have been facing continuous bouts of rain in different parts of India until last week and unfortunately some of these were in the sesame growing areas as well. While there is already a strong debate on the winter crop numbers that will see in the coming days, until the rains actually stop we will …
India has had bountiful rain in the last 2 – 3 weeks which have covered a very large portion of the winter crop sesame planting areas. Basis the recent data available with us, Gujarat has planted about 79,000 hectares compared to 120,000 hectares last year. On an all India basis we have a planting numbers …
We have come a full circle in the last one year with an imminent lockdown identical to the one that we had in April 2020 staring us in the face. Covid does not seem to go away, with or without the vaccine for now at least. We wish for all to stay safe and healthy. …