New Delhi, 22 July (NNS): The profit taking selling has been increasing from the stockists, as a result, here, the price of turmeric erode gatha asitis fell down by Rs 400 to Rs 18700 per quintal. Recently, the prices have gone down by Rs 1000 per quintal. There were around 4000 bags of turmeric reported to arrive and the prices slipped by Rs 300/400 per quintal. The active contract prices dropped down by Rs 948 or 4.40 percent to Rs 20578 per quintal because of the all-round speculative buying, due to this, the market sentiments may affect. There is no possibility of uptrend in the prices during the coming days.