Market Report: 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026

Egg rates this week

The India average NECC egg rate was ₹5.94 per egg this week (the average of 7 days of NECC rates), up 3.4% from ₹5.74 the week before.

A year earlier, in the same week, it averaged ₹5.69: this week is 4.3% higher.

The biggest rise was in Delhi (+10.0%, to ₹6.22); the biggest fall in Vijayawada (-1.6%, to ₹5.99).

The cheapest market this week was Hospet at ₹5.49 per egg and the dearest Kolkata at ₹6.43, across 24 NECC markets.

Over 17 full years (2009-2025), October egg rates have averaged 4.7% above their year's average; the cheapest month is usually April and the dearest December.

Average NECC rate per egg over the days each market had a rate; the markets that moved most.

Today's egg rates in every NECC market

Cardamom auctions this week

Spices Board licensed auctioneers held 6 small cardamom e-auctions on 3 days this week. 430.2 tonnes arrived and 420.8 tonnes were sold (98% of arrivals).

The average price, weighted by the quantity sold, was ₹3,111 per kg, up 0.5% from ₹3,095 the week before; the best lot fetched ₹4,362 per kg.

Quantity sold was 62% less than the week before (1,112.9 tonnes).

In the same week last year, the average was ₹2,512 per kg: this week was 23.8% higher.

Today's cardamom auction prices · How cardamom auctions and grades work

Mandi crop prices this week

Across 131 crops traded at 10 or more markets, 57 rose and 40 fell this week (the median price of every reporting market, against the week before).

Biggest rises: Green peas +19.5% to ₹92.00 per kg; Garlic +18.0% to ₹180.00 per kg; Potato +16.7% to ₹14.00 per kg; Knol khol +13.7% to ₹54.00 per kg; Sponge gourd +13.6% to ₹25.00 per kg.

Biggest falls: Dry ginger -34.9% to ₹70.00 per kg; Pigeon pea pods (Arhar fali) -21.7% to ₹90.00 per kg; Guar (cluster beans) -20.3% to ₹50.00 per kg; Turnip -13.7% to ₹41.00 per kg; Spinach -12.5% to ₹17.50 per kg.

For context: Green peas usually costs 49% more in October than its year's average (11 years of records); Garlic usually costs 10% more in October than its year's average (16 years of records); Potato usually costs 23% more in October than its year's average (23 years of records); Guar (cluster beans) usually costs 1% more in October than its year's average (20 years of records).

Median of the modal prices of every market that reported the crop that week. Wholesale prices; shops charge more.

Mandi prices by crop and state

How this report is made

This report is written automatically every week from official price data: NECC's suggested egg prices, the Spices Board's small cardamom e-auction results, and mandi prices that market committees report to Agmarknet (Directorate of Marketing & Inspection), which we read from data.gov.in under the Government Open Data Licence – India. It states what the prices did; it does not guess why. Our methodology page explains how we collect and check every price.

“The daily egg prices suggested by NECC, on its official website or through any other medium (including verbal, print and digital media) are merely suggestive and not mandatory. The suggested prices are published solely for the reference and information of the trade and industry. NECC does not by itself or through any person enforce compliance or adherence with such suggested egg prices in any manner whatsoever. If any person not authorized by NECC chooses to disseminate NECC suggested prices through any medium, such person must also include the above clarification while disseminating NECC suggested prices of eggs.”