Edible oil prices may decrease in the domestic market soon, helping to cool food inflation and lessen the pressure on household budgets. Following an order from the food ministry to cut prices by Rs 10-12/liter in view of the decline in global prices and the recent import tax cuts, major producers, including Adani Wilmar and…
Palm oil prices resumed their downward direction on Wednesday after having gained on the first two days of the week following the suspension of production by some Malaysian producers. The edible oil also gained as soyabean oil prices increased on the Chicago Board of Trade during the weekend. However, the downward pressure on palm oil,…
Consumers should stay themselves for difficult times ahead, as Indonesia- India’s major source of palm oil imports banned exports of all edible oil raw materials on Friday to ease domestic insufficiency. India imports as much as half of its demand of 8.3 mt palm oil from Indonesia. This is expected to shoot up prices in…
government has set the ambitious target for more than three-fold increase in domestic palm oil production, from the current 3 lakh tonnes to 11 lakh tonnes by 2025-26, to reduce India’s high dependence on import of edible oil. To accelerate production and cultivation of oil palm in the country, the government will now put special…
