Herbs & Spices news

Cumin holds its rally as India's crop comes in a sixth smaller

Trade estimates put India's cumin crop 16% to 18% below last year, and prices held their October gains. Turmeric stocks are close to exhausted.

Indian cumin is now cheaper than Iran, Syria and Turkey

Cumin from the origins that historically undercut India now costs buyers more than Indian cumin, and that reversal is pulling demand into Gujarat.

A storm halves Guntur chili arrivals, and prices hold

A deep depression halved red chili arrivals at Guntur in late September, but weak export volumes kept prices in range. Small and big cardamom split.

Festival buying lifts cumin while coriander futures slide

Cumin ground higher through early September on festival buying while coriander futures dropped close to 5% with spot flat. Turmeric ended the fortnight nowhere.

Red chilli breaks a month of stasis with a 16% jump

Delhi 334 red chilli moved 16% in a week after a month near $253/quintal, with Andhra's monsoon 40% below normal. Nepal's bumper crop is resetting big cardamom.

Turmeric's third rally in a row ends the same way

Turmeric rallied and gave it back for the third fortnight running, even with carryover stock down to 5 lakh bags against 140 lakh bags of annual demand.

India's spice markets share one problem: thin carryover stock

Cumin, coriander, turmeric, chilli, pepper and cardamom each moved on a different trigger, but India's spice markets share one thin carryover stock problem.

Coriander leads a spice rally on thin arrivals and Hormuz optimism

Coriander rose about 9% on thin Baran arrivals, leading a broad Indian spice rally as US-Iran talks lifted hopes the Strait of Hormuz would reopen to trade.

Thin arrivals support Indian spices, but demand won't chase

India's spice complex spent the first half of June in a standoff: arrivals kept thinning across the major mandis, yet buyers refused to chase prices higher.

Cumin finds its floor while coriander supply tightens

India's spice markets waited on buyers through late May, and cumin produced a rare clear signal: Unjha traders named a floor of $2.09 to $2.11/kg.

India's spice markets have a supply story, but buyers aren't listening yet

Six Indian spice categories, one story: supply is genuinely tight but buyers have gone quiet. Cumin arrivals at Unjha fell over 80% from the mid-April peak.

Indian spice markets caught between tight supply and stalled export demand

Indian spice markets show one pattern across the complex: supply is tight, sometimes severely, but weak demand keeps capping or reversing every rally.

Gulf shipping disruption reshapes Indian spice export flows

Conflict in West Asia and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz are reshaping Indian spice exports, with sellers avoiding freight-inclusive terms entirely.