In February this year, we also launched the black pepper future, which was the first futures contract for the commodity.

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When backwardation happens, the future contracts of a commodity are actually priced lower than the price of the current month contract at the time of sale, and the investor (or ETF) can benefit by selling the current month high and buying the next month lower.

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