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The first private mandi in India with international infrastructure

A dedicated 100-acre market area with top-notch infrastructure, banking, storage, processing, and packaging services all under one roof, alternatives for offline and online trading, legalization of field trade, and farmer ownership. These are a few of the intended characteristics of the private agriculture market that Sahyadri Farmer Producer Company is launching (FPC). The FPC has…

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Edible oil body for improving independence and reducing imports

Vegetable oil producers in India are grinning once more as edible consumption has returned to pre-Covid levels. In the 2019–20 season (November–October), the average person’s consumption of edible oil fell by 7.8 percent, and the future years’ price volatility further impacted the off-take. And now for the good news for manufacturers of edible oils. Unexpectedly,…

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ONGC plans to reverse the fall in oil and gas production, with production rebounding to 25.6 mt in FY25

The biggest oil and gas producer in India, ONGC, said on a conference call with investors that it would reverse years of production drop this year and progressively increase output going forward as it invests billions to produce from more recent discoveries. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) produced 21.707 million tonnes of crude oil…

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