Indian sugar mills have contracted to export 2.7 million tonnes of sugar since the current season began on Oct. 1, trade body All India Sugar Trade Association (AISTA) said. Mills have already shipped out 1.7 million tonnes of the sweetener, a top official of the All India Sugar Trade Association told Reuters. Indian mills have […]
India’s farmers and the poor stand to gain the most, irrespective of who comes to power, post the general elections 2019. Going by the manifestos of these two parties, it is clear that both are wooing farmers in a big way. At an estimated 263 million, farmers indeed form a key voting bloc in the […]
India’s oilmeal exports during April 2018 to March 2019 is reported at 3,205,768 tonnes, up 6% as compared to 3,026,628 tonnes during the corresponding period last year, according to latest data compiled by the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA). The export of oilmeals during March 2019, provisionally reported at 263,817 tonnes compared to 261,308 […]
India’s economic growth in recent years has been driven by domestic demand and its exports were about one third of its potential, a World Bank official said, asserting that the next government needs to focus on export-led growth. Praising attempts to liberalise markets within India, Hans Timmer, World Bank Chief Economist for the South Asia […]
India has issued a combined 650,000 tonne import quota for pulses for the fiscal year to March 2020, Reuters reported citing a government order, allowing overseas purchases of protein-rich pulse varieties. Two straight years of drought pushed up pulse prices in 2015 and forced New Delhi to allow duty-free imports. But record imports of 6.6 […]
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) has raised its forecast for global coffee production in 2018/19 to 168.05 million 60-kg bags from its earlier estimate of 167.47 million. World consumption in coffee year 2018/19 is estimated at 164.99 million bags compared to 161.38 million bags in 2017/18. The inter-governmental body now sees a global surplus of […]
The National Stock Exchange is set to launch futures contracts in the S&P 500 Index on its platform, which will enable Indian investors to take exposure to the most-actively traded futures contract in the world. NSE plans to enter trading in agricultural commodities with eight new contracts that are not currently traded on any other […]
Current world cereal production estimate for 2018, incorporating Chinese historical production revisions, stands at 2 655 million tonnes (including rice in milled terms), the U.N. food agency said in its latest monthly report. Although this figure is 46 million tonnes higher than the previous month’s estimate, world cereal production is still down 1.8 percent (48.8 […]
The FAO Food Price Index held broadly stable in March, as a jump in dairy prices was offset by drops in cereal, vegetable oil and sugar price quotations, according to the latest benchmark UN report. The index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices of a basket of food commodities, averaged 167 points, down two […]
Economic growth in China is expected to moderate in the next two years as global growth slows and trade tensions with the United States (US) weigh on trade and investment, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In its Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019, ADB projects gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the world’s second largest […]