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  BIZ MASALA    /    COMMODITIES    /    AGRIBUSINESS Deferred NCDEX contracts jumped on 16 October and Nizamabad rates stayed firm. Tight stock estimates add to the bullish case, but no reliable source confirms a 41% loss across North Karnataka and Telangana. BY BIZ MASALA DESK    |    19 OCTOBER 2026 Turmeric at a wholesale spice market. Illustrative editorial image; not a documentary photograph of a named mandi. MARKET SIGNAL LATEST REPORTED READING NCDEX December 2026 +4.49% on 16 October NCDEX October 2026 −1.00% on 16 October Nizamabad finger turmeric ₹21,700 per quintal on 16 October 41% regional crop loss Not independently verified   Turmeric has a firmer price story this week, but the evidence is more nuanced than a simple weather-led supply shock. NCDEX data for Friday, 1...

  Who takes the risk, who captures the margin—and why a tomato glut can turn a farmer’s harvest into a loss By Murthy ASR   |   Biz Masala   |   18 October 2026 Hero illustration: the tomato journey from farm to wholesale market and consumer. Illustrative artwork, not a documentary photograph. A tomato can be worth very little in the field and much more on a kitchen counter. Between those two points sit weather, yield, sorting, transport, commission, spoilage, bargaining power and the simple fact that a ripe tomato cannot wait indefinitely for a better price. That is the economics behind “Tomatonomics”—and Madanapalle, in Andhra Pradesh’s Annamayya district, is a revealing place to begin examining it. A price snapshot is not the whole market The latest dated market record located for this story is 16 October 2026. A mandi-data aggregator reproducing records attributed to India’s Open Government Data Platform lists Madanapalli APMC’s local tomato (FAQ...