Price: €11.00
Member Price: €0.00

Pumpkin seeds: low buying interest

July 11, 2023 at 11:29 AM , Der AUDITOR
Play report as audio

DALIAN. Demand on the Chinese pumpkin seed market is currently low, with shine skins in particular finding hardly any buyers. Buyers still have full warehouses and market experts estimate that orders for the new crop could also be delayed.

Full warehouses in the EU

The Chinese pumpkin seed market is stable with relatively little trading activity. Shine skin traders are having a particularly difficult time at the moment. The speculators, who own almost all the remaining stocks of shine skins, have miscalculated - they expected that rising domestic demand would drive up prices and make it easy to sell their goods. On the contrary, however, buying interest is very weak both domestically and overseas, so that prices on the shine skin market are declining. Especially in the important target market of the E

View related articles

Go to the News Overview
Nuts
Jun 30, 2025
NEW DELHI. Farmers in India are keen to purchase high-quality seeds to sow peanuts. Edible oil is trading lower. Yields have risen sharply in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Oilseeds
Jun 26, 2025
NEW DELHI. Results for the recent tender were rather surprising. Yet, the tender has little impact for sesame seeds in India. China is encouraging trade with Africa. US imports show diverse developments.
Oilseeds
Jun 25, 2025
SOFIA/BRUSSELS. July and August will prove decisive in the EU. Farmers are switching to sunflower seeds in Russia. EU imports are down on last year.
Oilseeds
Jun 24, 2025
OLOMOUC/BRUSSELS. With the harvest just around the corner for poppy seeds all eyes are set on the weather in the Czech Republic. EU imports have witnessed a sharp decline.