Slow farmer selling has reduced oilseed crushing in India and could force the country to increase imports of edible oils such as soyoil, pa...

Soyabean Processors association of India (SOPA) has opposed reduction in customs duty on edible oils claiming that it will help only the im...

The increase in export incentives for agriculture and related products along with the 2% additional incentive under MEIS scheme for soyamea...

Oilseeds will attract 5% tax under GST, unlike most other agricultural produce.

Local crushing plants could raise their low capacity utilisation by this measure and become financially viable.

India's oilmeal exports plummeted 91 per cent from a year ago to a record low of 17,243 tonnes in January on lower crushing of soybean.

A sharp decline in domestic oilseeds output and crushing has encouraged edible oil imports, while discouraging exports of oilmeal, it said.

Since last month, the spread between palm oil and soybean oil has gone down sharply, thereby encouraging soybean oil imports over palm oil.

The country had exported 2.44 lakh tonnes of oilmeal in August, 2010, the Solvent Extractor's Association of India said.

Oilseed production in India has not been growing vis-à-vis the consumption. India is consuming almost 4-5% higher year by year due to popul...

Total oilseed production of India for 2010-11 is likely to increase by 10 per cent to 34.9 million tonnes over the last year, the US Depart...

The edible oil industry is urging a tightening of futures trading in oils and oilseeds.

With oilseed crushers feeling the pinch on their margin due to rise in oilseed prices, which, they feel, have been fuelled by speculations ...

Adani Wilmar, a Rs 6,000 crore company and owner’s of India’s topselling brand Fortune, plans to double the capacity of its port-based refi...

The edible oil industry has come to a standstill after crude palm oil crashed to 50% of this year’s top price.

Louis Dreyfus India has made a foray into processing with soya crushing because of the excellent prospects for the crop this season.

Bunge, maker of Dalda vanaspati and refined oils, is learnt to be selling off its Pithampur plant after moves to turn it around came a crop...