Indian farmers are expected to decrease soybean cultivation this year, potentially shifting to corn and sugarcane due to better profitabili...

The central government will procure soyabean at Minimum Support Price in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana to support farmers. Meanwhil...

September rains in key agricultural regions have raised hopes of easing food inflation in India. The higher precipitation has benefited the...

As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), SOPA will receive information, datasets, maps, and data-enriched secure APIs for their su...

As per IMD, 47% of the 716 districts from where the weather office gets its data recorded a 'large deficiency' of rainfall till June 22 whi...

The import duty on crude varieties of palm oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil is currently zero. However, after taking into account 5% agri...

"The sowing window is open till mid-July so we are not worried about the pace of sowing," said DN Pathak, executive director, SOPA. The tot...

The biggest difference in area estimation of the government and Sopa is in Rajasthan where the government estimate of 55.8 lakh hectare is ...

Rains are now helping oilseed crops like soyabean and groundnut, pulses, paddy, bajra, maize and cotton, Agricultural experts said. But if ...

Mustard harvesting is currently on in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and West Bengal. “It is est...

The rise in price of soybean--an agri-commodity used to produce oil and animal feed--has resulted in soybean oil becoming costlier than mus...

The southwest monsoon has turned vigorous in August after a deficient July, raising fears of floods and triggering pest attacks on crops. R...

"In Madhya Pradesh, the overall loss of production may be 10% to 12%. However, the weather in coming weeks will have a great bearing on fin...

Once the US sanctions are put in place, Iran is also likely to shift sourcing of sugar and soymeal from Brazil & Argentina to India.

The country generally imports around 14.5-15 million tonnes of edible oil to meet its domestic consumption which is around 20 million tonne...

The Maharashtra government has imposed stock limit on oils and oilseeds in its effort to check rising prices of pulses, a move that has tak...

Sebi has trained its sights on trading in key farm futures products chana and soybean to ascertain whether excessive speculation was influe...