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Agriculture and mandi price intelligence
The local rate and the world price are two halves of the same decision. We record both — a Lahore mandi's dawn rate, the international grain benchmark the same day — and what the same goods fetch once they reach Riyadh and Doha.
What we cover in agriculture
Grains & cereals
Wheat, maize, barley and sorghum — mandi rates alongside international benchmarks so importers can see the arbitrage rather than guess it.
Rice
Basmati, IRRI and broken grades across the domestic market and the major export destinations — a core Pakistani export line.
Cotton & fibre
Lint, phutti and yarn pricing for ginners, spinners and textile exporters working to a thin, moving margin.
Pulses & oilseeds
Gram, lentils, moong, soybean and canola — the import-dependent lines where a week's timing changes the landed cost materially.
Sugar & edible oils
Sugar, palm oil, soybean oil and ghee — tracked through both the wholesale market and international reference pricing.
Daily mandi rates
Wholesale rates as they are called each day, captured and stored so you have a record instead of a memory.
Across the Arabian Sea
What the same goods fetch in the Gulf
The Gulf imports nearly everything it eats, and its governments publish what it costs. For an exporter that is the other end of the contract, in the buyer's own currency.
Qatar's central market, daily
The ministry's daily bulletin of what vegetables and fish sold for, per kilo in riyals, for every product traded on the floor that day.
Priced by country of origin
Each line names where the lot came from — Pakistan, India, Iran, Jordan, Egypt and others — so an exporter sees what the competing origin fetched the same morning.
Saudi Arabia's official averages
Monthly average prices for about a hundred food staples — rice, flour, meat, fish, dairy, vegetables, oils and sugar — as the statistics authority publishes them.
Why it matters
Seasonality is only visible if somebody wrote it down
Agricultural pricing turns on harvest timing, support prices, import decisions and the weather. None of that is legible from a single day's rate — it needs years of recorded history, which is exactly what most desks never kept.
- Season-over-season comparison. See this year's wheat curve against the last three, not just last week.
- Local versus landed. Compare the mandi rate with the imported equivalent to time procurement.
- Export competitiveness. Track your basmati or cotton against the destination market's own pricing.
- Evidence for lenders and buyers. A dated, sourced price record stands up in a negotiation.
| Series | Unit | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Wheat — local mandi | PKR / 100 kg | Daily |
| Wheat — international | USD / tonne | Daily |
| Basmati rice | PKR / 100 kg | Daily |
| IRRI rice | USD / tonne | Daily |
| Cotton lint | PKR / maund | Daily |
| Sugar — wholesale | PKR / 100 kg | Daily |
| Palm oil | USD / tonne | Daily |
| Gram / pulses | PKR / 100 kg | Daily |
Know the rate before you reach the mandi
See the crops you buy and sell, with the daily record and the seasonal history behind them.