The turnover of the commodity exchanges dropped by 58.37% and stood at Rs 22.4 lakh crore till August 15 of this fiscal compared to the turnover of Rs 53.82 lakh crore in the same period of 2013-14 fiscal, according to the Forward Markets Commission (FMC). This drop in turnover was due to continuous fall in trading volumes in most of the commodities. The maximum trading volumes have fallen in bullion, followed by energy items, industry metals and agricultural commodities.
The turnover from bullion fell 67.4% to Rs 7.96 lakh crore during April-August 15 of the current fiscal from Rs 24.43 lakh crore in the year-ago period. The turnover from energy items has dropped 65% to Rs 4.87 lakh crore from Rs 13.82 lakh crore, while the business from metals fell 51% to Rs 5.01 lakh crore from Rs 10.16 lakh crore in the review period.
Similarly, the turnover from farm items declined 15.52% to Rs 4.55 lakh crore during April-August 15 of this fiscal against Rs 5.38 lakh crore in the same period last year.
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