Major producers of edible oils, including Adani Wilmar and Emami, have started lowering the cost of their most popular products as a way of passing on the benefits of the decline in prices elsewhere to customers. At a meeting with business organisations last week, the food ministry pushed producers to lower costs. The maximum retail…
Due to India’s increased soybean carryover stock of 3 million metric tonnes (MMT) and higher output of 12.33 MMT for the crop year 2022–23, soybean prices have fallen by about 6% so far in 2023. This is a result of favorable weather, expanded agricultural land, and higher crop yield potential. The volume of commodities supplied…
According to a senior industry official who spoke to Reuters on Tuesday, India’s imports of palm oil might increase 16% to a four-year high of 9.17 million tonnes in 2022/23 as demand is expected to increase following two years of contraction due to COVID-led lockdowns. Palm oil futures are already trading near their highest level…
With effect for the 2023–24 fiscal year, the Union Commerce Ministry has discontinued duty-free imports of soyabean oil under the tariff rate quota (TRQ) regime. Sunflower oil imports, however, will continue to be duty-free under the TRQ system. According to the notification, imports of soyabean oil are still permitted under the TRQ till June 30….
In the current oil year 2022–23, which begins in October, soybean crushing in the nation is anticipated to climb by roughly a fifth to 100 lakh tonnes (lt), compared to 84 lt in the previous season, due to greater availability of the oilseed due to higher output and carryover stockpiles. The Soyabean Oil Processors Association…
The cost of importing edible oil into the nation increased by 118 percent from the 2019–20 oil season to the 2021–22 oil season (November–October). According to information provided by the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA), the value of imported edible oil increased by 34% from the season of 2020–21 to 2021–22, reaching $1.56 lakh…
The food ministry announced on Sunday that until March 2023, certain edible oils are subject to preferential import taxes. In order to increase domestic supply and manage retail prices, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) made this decision on August 31, 2022. The CBIC’s decision to extend the current reduced import taxes…
The government should aim to increase domestic edible oil production to meet the roughly 0.7 million tonnes (MT) incremental increase in demand each year in order to reduce rising edible oil imports, which are threatening to put pressure on the current account, said Atul Chaturvedi, President of the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA), on…
