Lentil (Masur)(Whole) Price Trend at Ashta

The latest modal price for Lentil (Masur)(Whole) (Masur Dal) at Ashta APMC, Madhya Pradesh is ₹6,269 per quintal, against a 30-day average of ₹6,186 per quintal.

Over the last twelve months, Lentil (Masur)(Whole) at Ashta ranged from a low of ₹4,650 to a high of ₹7,601 per quintal. The current modal price is +2.3% compared with the same period a year ago.

This page charts up to three years of daily APMC auction reports for Lentil (Masur)(Whole) at Ashta — 74 individual price reports in total. The table below the chart lists the most recent reports with min, modal and max rates.

The modal price is the rate at which the largest volume of a commodity was traded during a day's auction. Because it is a volume-weighted mode rather than an average, a few unusually high or low lots do not distort it, which makes it the most reliable series for tracking a market over time.

Arrivals peak at harvest, which pushes mandi rates down, and thin out in the off-season, which pushes them up. Storage capacity, transport costs, festival demand and procurement activity in Madhya Pradesh all shift the curve as well. Reading the multi-year chart helps you spot the window in which Lentil (Masur)(Whole) has historically fetched its best rate.

The NaPanta app can notify you when Lentil (Masur)(Whole) at Ashta crosses a price you choose, and sends a daily summary of the mandi's rates each morning.

Use the "Compare with" filter on this page to select any state, district and market. The chart will plot both markets' daily max prices as separate lines over the last 15 days, so you can instantly spot which mandi offers better rates and how the price gap has been moving.

APMC daily auction results are forwarded to the national AgMarkNet data pool and reflected on this page within 24 hours of the auction. Most markets report once per trading day; some report every two to three days during low-arrival periods. The last report date is shown at the top of the page.