Select spices rule steady in mute trade

Select spices including black pepper, ginger, copra office alapuza and copra office Kozhikode maintained stable trend in an otherwise mute spices market here today in the absence of any major buying activity.

While, copra rajapur mumbai and copra edible mumbai prices unavailable due to strike today.

Following are today's closing rates (in Rs with previous rates in brackets):

Black pepper (per kg) 740/810 (740/810), ginger bleached (per kg) 160 (160), ginger unbleached (per kg) 180 (180), copra office Alapuzha (per quintal) 5,300 (5,300), copra office Kozhikode (per quintal) 5,200 (5,200), copra Rajapur Mumbai (per quintal) unav. (9,800), copra edible Mumbai (per quintal) unav. (6,900).