New Delhi, 27 April (NNS): Here, the prices of turmeric erode gatha asitis dropped down by Rs 200 to Rs 15500 per quintal because of the weak buying at the higher level. Recently, the prices have gone up by Rs 300/400 per quintal. There were around 2000 bags of turmeric reported to arrive in the Erode and the prices held firm at the previous level. Here, the active turmeric contract prices went down by Rs 72 or 0.44 percent to Rs 16350 per quintal owing to the weak speculative buying, due to this, the market sentiments may affect. There is no possibility of long uptrend in the prices during the coming days.