The objective of this paper is to study overall scenario of the cumin at the national and international level as well as to analyze the perception of traders’ on the major factors influencing cumin prices in the spot market. India contributes about 70 per cent of world cumin production followed by Syria, Iran and other countries. India accounts for 73 per cent of the Global trade. For analysing the perception of traders regarding factors affecting prices of the Cumin twenty factors have been considered in this study. The study shows that higher export order; quality and grades of the cumin; weather; higher production of cumin; higher demand from processor, stockiest as well as retailers and futures trading are the major factors according to the traders’ perception. However, increase in production cost; population increase as well as income growth of consumer were not perceived influencing factors for cumin prices. | Overall scenario and assessment of the factors for price volatility of cumin in Rajasthan
