Prices of moong dal, urad dal, gram dal and maida sharply went down while other commodities remained unaltered in the wholesale foodgrains market during the week under review.
Moong dal opened the week at its previous rate of Rs 7,500 moved down by Rs 300 per quintal on Tuesday to Rs 7,200 and further slipped by Rs 200 per quintal to Rs 7,000 on Thursday and recovered by Rs 200 per quintal to Rs 7,200 on Friday and declined by Rs 200 per quintal today to end the week at Rs 7,000 from its last week rate of Rs 7,500.
Prices of urad dal moved down to Rs 7,300 on Tuesday and recovered to Rs 7,400 and to settle at Rs 7,200 today from its previous week's rate of Rs 7,500.
Gram dal went down by Rs 50 per quintal to Rs 2,800 from Rs 2,850. Maida (90 kgs) declined by Rs 50 to Rs 1,700 from Rs 1,750.
Thoor dal (Rs 6,200), sugar (Rs 2,650), wheat (Rs 1,850) and sooji (Rs 1,900) remained unchanged from their last week's rates.