Wheat rises on flour millers buying

In restricted activity, wheat dara prices rose by Rs 20 per quintal in the wholesale grains market today on fresh buying by flour mills. Other grains, continued to trade in a tight range on alternate bouts of trading and settled around previous levels.

Traders said fresh buying by flour mills and speculations that the government may allow exports, mainly led to a rise in wheat dara prices.

Wheat dara, mostly consumed by flour mills, rose by Rs 20 to Rs 1,250-1,255 per quintal. Atta chakki delivery followed suit and traded higher by the same margin at Rs 1,255-1,260 per 90 kg.

Following are today's quotations in Rs per quintal:

Wheat MP (deshi) 1,750-1,850, wheat dara (for mills) 1,250-1,255 chakki atta (delivery) 1,255-1,260, atta Rajdhani (10 kg) 175, Shakti bhog (10 kg) 175, Roller flour mill 630- 650 (50 kg), Maida 750-780 (50 kilos) and Sooji 800-820 (50 kg)

Basmati rice (Lal Quila) 9,300, Shri Lal Mahal 9,300, Super basmati rice 9,000, Basmati common 5,250-5,350, rice Pusa-(1121) 4,550-5,050, Permal raw 1,750-1,800, Permal wand 1,825-1,975, Sela 2,050-2,100 and Rice IR-8-1,575-1,600

Bajra 960-970, Jowar yellow 1,450-1,525, white 2,250-2,300, Maize 975-985, Barley (UP) 1,050-1,070 and Rajasthan 1,080-1,090