Classification of Commodities

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES:

PLANTATION: Rubber	FIBRES: Cotton
SPICES: Pepper Turmeric Jeera Chilli Coriander Cardamom	CEREALS: Wheat Barley Maize
	OIL & OIL SEEDS: Castor seeds Cotton seed oilcake Soy bean Refined soy oil Mustard seed Crude Palm oil
OTHERS: Almond Guar seed Menthe oil Potato Guar gum Gur Sugar
	PULSES: Chana Yellow Peas

METAL & ENERGY COMMODITIES:

BULLIONS/PRECIOUS METALS: Gold Silver Platinum	BASE METALS: Copper Zinc Lead Steel Nickel Aluminum Tin
ENERGY: Crude oil Natural gas Gasoline Heating oil

          The list of internationally traded commodities is even longer. Internationally livestocks, weather contracts are also traded with good volume. Weather contracts have entered into India but will take good time to catch up attraction.

         There are also some more commodities traded on Indian Commodity Exchanges such as ATF, Thermal coal etc. Variants of commodities such as Maize feed, Maize Industrial etc. Contracts also classified upon location and different volume/weight, import grade, export grade etc. are also traded.

          We will shortly give you brief, and basic idea about each segment of commodities along with some useful insight.

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