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Originally Posted by annienj  TO ALL THE READERS .
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I was at the grocery store , I read the article pasted at the Subzi mandi , that exports of dals are banned from India and On enquiring from the the lady at the counter she told that the prices would be double in the month of June and July . Speciallly for the Toor Dal( Split Pigeon Peas ) . I bought substanial quantity that would last atleast 2 months . and Diwali nearing up the buying goes high for wholesalers for diwali sales so the prices go uo few months before Diwali . Wow !! i thought India is interesting raising their exports that was new to me .
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Annie, You got your dates mixed up. This is Old news and the ban is supposed to be from july 2006 to march 2007. So if you have shopped recently and still paid the jacked up price, then you got taken for a ride. Any way how is one sure that the dal we buy in indian stores is coming from India?? Last I know India used to import dals from china to meet the demand in addition to home grown crop. The store owners had definitely jacked up the prices right from the day the ban was announced even for the stock that was bought before (typical capitalist practice) even before the ban came into effect.
So looks like shop kepers are benefitting from consumer ignorance(like paying hiked prices for goods that supposedly come from India even after the export ban is lifted)
Here is a useful site which according to one of my blogger friends sells dals for cheap
I just found your website while I was searching for dal news. I did find a website though that might help you out. They are selling dal at pretty low prices and theyre delivering to your door free. Its at
www.spicyusa.com. Ive ordered from them and the quality of the dal was really good, better than my local stores. Anyways, hope this helps!
Dal Prices Soar in America After Indian Government Bans Export - NAM
Dal Prices Soar in America After Indian Government Bans Export
India West , News Report, Ashfaque Swapan,
Posted: Jul 25, 2006
Go easy on the dal, and reach out for more sabzi (vegetables).
Faced with an unexpected crunch in supply of dal and lentils, the staple item of the Indian meal, that's the advice hapless store owners are giving to worried customers after an Indian ban on exports of lentils has sent prices soaring and supplies dwindling.
The Indian government has banned the export of dals and lentils until March 2007 to curb rising commodity prices.
"We advise customers to concentrate more on the vegetable than the dal," Dinesh Kumar of India Cash and Carry, a busy Indian grocery store in Sunnyvale, Calif., told India-West.
No Indian meal is complete without dal, and it is a critical source of protein for vegetarians. Over the weekend, customers have been flocking to the aisle that stores dal, Kumar said.
"People are in a little panic for dals right now, even though we are requesting them to not take too many packets," said Kumar, whose store has set a limit of a four-pound pack per household. People were cooperating, he said.
Prices have shot up. Toor dal, one of the commonly used varieties, which retailed for less than a dollar a pound a couple of weeks ago, has shot up to almost two dollars a pound.
Distributors were worried. "Distributors aren't sure either," Kumar said. "They are also in panic."
Wholesaler Haresh Parmar, whose Hayward, Calif.-based Dhanraj serves 300 customers, said he had a big problem in his hands. "We are not going to get any dal from India, so we are gonna have a problem. There's a lot of shortage of dal here. We are not getting any dal coming from India any more; by the time the dal comes here it may be February, March. All the dal prices have gone up in Australia, Canada."
Wholesalers like Dhanraj were struggling to keep up with demand.
"Demands have gone up way high. Everybody is looking for dal and there is not enough in the market," Parmar told India-West. "We have to supply each and every store; we have limited quantity to supply."
Neil Soni, who is with New York-based wholesaler House of Spices, which supplies 1,500 stores in the U.S., said his company was working closely with vendors to get a handle on the crisis.
"House of Spices is working closely with our vendors across the world to source proper supply of dals and pulses to supply the Indian stores throughout the country," he told India-West. "Unfortunately, certain dals have increased dramatically in price due to scarcity, which is affecting the pricing in the market.
"We are able to buy all the dal currently. Unfortunately, the price has gone up due to our increased costs."
House of Spices was trying to import dal from alternate sources. "We are sourcing dal around the world from Canada, Turkey, Thailand, Australia, Pakistan, Africa and we are working with all our outside vendors accordingly," Soni said.
However, toor dal, which constitutes 35-40 percent of all dal sales, was in short supply, because India had stopped exporting, and the other source, Kenya, had a drought this year.
Consequently, prices had gone up. "Before you were able to buy a 10-lb bag of toor dal for $8.99 to $11.99, depending on the area," he said. "Now it will be $19.99. Two months ago in Edison, N.J., you got 40 lbs. of toor dal for $16. It is now $2 a pound."
It's hard to tell how this would play out, he said. "As of now, the market is in a period of uncertainty," Soni said. "Nobody knows what's going to happen in the course of the next month."
Right now, at his store, things were under control, said Kumar of India Cash and Carry.
"I heard that besan (gram flour) prices are going up, but so far distributors haven't raised the prices," he added. "We are telling our customers not to panic. We are trying to reach the Government of India. They might release the ban before Diwali."
Parmar of Dhanraj is worried that things could get worse. "Now that the Indian festivals are coming, Dussehra and Rakhshabandhan and all these, there is going to be a lot of problems with the dals and chana besans (dal flour). I think (the price of) everything is gonna go up again," he speculated darkly.
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. I am n newyork, we used to go to patel brothers where they keep on increasing the price, so i went to subzi mandi where the price was reasonable esp dhal which i got frm there last time.
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