China accounts for 30-40% of India’s total jeera exports and it usually import large quantities in March and April.

The current prices are around 10 per cent lower than a year before.

The black pepper crop was better than the previous year and only jeera declined.

As India is the sole supplier in the global market, the overseas demand will not dry up totally.

June futures reached Rs 192.35 per kg on Friday.

With harvest getting over in the main growing areas of Gujarat and Rajasthan, an anticipated decline in production is spurring prices.

The jeera July futures for delivery on NCDEX on Tuesday hovered around Rs 175 per kg, about 10% higher from a year earlier.

Uncertainty over the output following prolonged dry spell and robust buying by China during April-May triggered hopes of prices touching Rs...

Expectation of lower yield than projected earlier and prospects of rise in demand from overseas market may support further upside in prices.

At 1.55 lakh tonne, valued at Rs 1,800 crore, jeera was the second biggest exported spice from India after chilli in the previous year.

After growing nearly five times in the past four years to a record 1.55 lakh tonne, jeera or cumin, export is set for a correction this yea...

Jeera is the second-largest exported single spice from India fetching over Rs 1,800 crore last year. Jeera prices had escalated by 60 per c...

Jeera (cumin) exports are reaching a new high even as prices have moved up in the local markets following unseasonal rains and production s...

Jeera exports are expected to reach over 1 LT with India having the advantage in the international market by virtue of it being the sole su...

Shipments of Indian jeera have increased by 25% in the first three months of the current financial year.

So far, jeera exports touched 45,500 tonne in 2012-13, valued at around Rs 644 crore. Spices Board had set a target of 45,000 tonne.

India is heading for a record export of jeera (cumin) with Syria, the country's main competitor, in the grips of a political turmoil.