Soyabean, groundnut, and sunflower prices have fallen 8-25% below the Minimum Support Price (MSP) in agri-terminal markets during the early days of the harvesting season. Farmers face significant losses due to delayed MSP-based procurement, with soybean prices averaging ₹4,268 per quintal, 12.8% lower than the MSP. Large crop expectations and export uncertainties, particularly in Iran,…
On the basis of improved yields, the Soyabean Processors Association of India (SOPA) has increased the harvest forecasts for the Kharif 2022 crop to 124.11 lakh tonnes. Earlier, it estimated the yield to be 120.39 lakh tonnes (lt). The upward revision was due to greater yields, which are now at 1,051 kg per hectare compared…
The Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) of India provided data that revealed India exported 37.69 lakh tonnes (lt) of oil meals from April through February of the current fiscal year as opposed to 21.32 lt during the same period of the previous fiscal. According to BV Mehta, Executive Director of SEA of India, the price of…
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…
The industry anticipates that soya meal shipments would more than double to 14 lakh tonnes (lt) in the current oil season (October 2022–September 2023) due to the recovery in demand for Indian soya meal, particularly from SouthEast Asian and Far Eastern countries. Exports of soya meals are off to a good start. Shipments climbed by…
While growers who stuck to urad, moong, bajra, and ragi were unable to realize the MSP, farmers who sold cotton, soyabean, paddy, and jowar crops in the agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC) markets from October to December 2022, the crucial harvesting season, earned an additional 8,241.6 crore over the combined minimum support price (MSP) value….
In response to rising domestic and international demand, the price of the common spice cumin (jeera) has increased significantly by at least ‘300 per 20 kg in the past week. The commodity’s price increased from 4,800 to 5,100 to 5,100 to 5,500 in just the past week. According to market experts, this bull run is…
The farmer in Madhya Pradesh harvested a soyabean crop from his 10 acres of land in this Kharif season that amounted to about 55 quintals. Nearly 20 quintals, at an average cost of Rs 5,400 each, have been sold by him thus far in the open market. Selling oilseeds earned him close to Rs 6,500…
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…
Under the strain of arrivals, soyabean and groundnut prices may decrease to the MSP (minimum support price) levels set by the Center by Diwali, according to Ajay Jhunjhunwala, President of Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA).The circumstance, according to Jhunjhunwala in his letter to the SEA members, will have a negative effect on farmers and…
