New Delhi, 22 April (NNS): Here, the prices of turmeric erode gatha asitis softened by Rs 100 to Rs 15500 per quintal because of the weak buying from the stockists after the uptrend in the prices. Recently, the prices have gone up by Rs 200 per quintal. There were around 3500 bags of turmeric reported to arrive in the Erode and the prices held stable at the same level of the previous day. Here, the active turmeric contract prices went up by Rs 36 or 0.22 percent to Rs 16130 per quintal owing to the weak speculative buying. There is no possibility of downfall in the spot turmeric prices during the coming days.