Pumpkin seeds: suppliers covered for now

October 30, 2023 at 3:06 PM , Der AUDITOR
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DALIAN. Suppliers in China now have enough pumpkin seeds from the new crop at their disposal to meet existing contracts. This should stabilise the market for the time being.

High shine skin moisture levels

Traders in China expect raw shine skin and GWS kernels to trade in a narrow range in the next few weeks. Suppliers have bought most of what they needed in recent weeks and will not require additional volumes. As international demand tends to be rather low in October traders are seizing the opportunity to meet contracts entered in August or September. 

Due to the heavy rains witnessed at the start of October the moisture content is higher than usual for shine skin kernels. Yet, suppliers did not have enough time to delay b

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