Pistachio prices advanced by up to Rs 50 per kg at the wholesale dry fruit market in the national capital today on emergence of buying by stockists against tight stocks position.
However, other dry fruits after moving in a narrow range on little doing settled around the previous prices.
Marketmen said, fresh buying by stockists against tight stocks position on fall in arrivals from growing regions mainly attributed to the rise in pistachio prices.
In the national capital, pistachio Irani, Hairati and Peshwari settled higher at Rs 1,250-1,400, Rs 1,500-1,570 and Rs 1,700-1,750 from previous levels of Rs 1,200-1,350, Rs 1,490-1,560 and Rs 1,660-1,710 per kg, respectively.
Following are today's quotations (per 40 kgs):