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Sesame Seed

Sesame Seeds is one of the most important oilseed crop of India and like other oilseeds, its production too depends mainly on weather. Also it has competition from groundnut and castor so whichever gives better returns farmers shift to that crop. Its biological name is Sesamum Indicum.

The prodcution start coming mainly from Spetember onwards in market with western India being the major producer of sesame seed. India is the largest producer and exporter of it to world market. Sesame also come from countries like Ethiopia, China, Mexico etc. in smaller quantities.

There are mainly three types of sesame seeds in India - white, black and brown. Natural white sesame seed is the most traded and used for direct consumption. It has its various uses in bakery, confectionery, sesame products like tahini and many other food items. Brown seeds are mainly used for oil extraction purpose whereas black sesame seeds are for medicinal purpose as they are known to have health benefits.

India's main export is of mainly below type:

Natural White Sesame Seed: 99/1/99.90%., 99/1/1, 98/2/2, 95/5/2

Hulled Sesame Seed: AutoHulled and Sundriedhulled - 99.5%-99.95%.

U.S., Europe & Middle East are the major destinations for Indian sesame seeds.

The prices of sesame seeds are highly volatile and can swing to great extent in a day. The price movements of sesame are rarely predictable as its market is dominated by stockists and speculators.

Sesame Seed Prices

(Indicative Sesame Commodity Prices in US$ PMT FOB port, India



5th August - 98/2 - US$ 1750-1800

95/5 - US$ 1690-1725
The sesame prices have shown the tremendous decline due to good monsoons in its growing area. The further drop is not expected as Middle east purchases may be seen for Ramadan on lower prices.

30th July - 98/2 - US$ 1825-1875
The prices of sesame seed are more or less stable nowadays showing less variations looming largely in the region of 1800-1900. This commodity is highly fluctuating so up-down movement of 1-2% are not considered big variations.

18th July - 98/2 - US$ 1850-1900

1st July - 98/2 - 1950-2000
The sesame prices once again showed upward movement. Right now the prices are highly fluctuating and not easy for anyone to pick their movement.

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