Indias oilmeal exports jumps two-fold in July
The Dollar Business Bureau India’s oilmeal exports jumped two-fold to 87,944 tonnes in July in the wake of higher outbound shipment of castorseed meal to South Korea, said the industry body, Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA) on Friday. On the other hand, exports of oilmeal during the April-July period of the current fiscal dropped 47 percent to 2,74,237 tonnes against the 5,17,914 tonnes in the same period a year earlier. In July 2015, India had exported 44,238 tonnes of oilmeal, which was utilised as animal feed. The Mumbai-based industry body, SEA, attributed a drop in the exports of oilmeal during the April-July quarter to lesser availability of oilseeds for crushing and also due to the constant disparity in shipping oilmeal to the foreign markets. According ...