Higher acreage hopes pound pulses

Sluggish trend continued in pulse seeds and pulses on report of rise in crop area and better crop prospect. Decline in buying support and profit booking dragged masur prices in local mandis in the past few days by ₹100-150 a quintal with masur (bold) declining to ₹6,850-6,900, while masur (Madhya Pradesh) ruled at ₹6,500. Masur dal (medium) was at ₹7,700-7,900, while masur dal (bold) ruled at ₹8,000-8,100 a quintal. Moong (bold) declined to ₹6,400-6,500 (down ₹300 from last week), while moong (medium) ruled at ₹5,500-6,000. Moong dal (medium) was at ₹7,400-7,500 (down ₹100 from last week), moong dal (bold) ₹7,800-7,900, while moong mongar ruled at ₹7,600-7,900. Urad (bold) declined to ₹7,200-7,400, while urad (medium) ruled at ₹6,500. Urad dal (medium) fetched ₹7,900-8,400, urad dal (bold) ₹8,500-8,700, while urad mongar ruled at ₹10,300-500 a quintal respectively.