India’s coffee exports have seen a steady decline in the last decade amid growing need for value addition across multiple stages of coffee processing globally and rising demand for specialty coffees, according to a report by global trade finance company Drip Capital, quoting data from Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). India exported nearly USD […]
Hot and spicy red chillies continue to top the export basket of spices from India. And China emerges as the largest importer of Indian red chillies, especially the fiery Teja variety, as it consumes large quantities of the pungent spice. In FY21, India exported 6,01,500 tonnes of red chillies worth about Rs 8,430 crore. The […]
India’s sugar output during 2021-22 is estimated to remain flat at around 310 lakh tonnes in the next marketing year starting October on higher diversion of cane juice for ethanol manufacturing, according to industry body ISMA. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. The total area under coverage for sugarcane is estimated to be […]
Karnataka Mines and Geology Minister Murugesh R Nirani has instructed steel companies operating in the state to ramp up their efforts to produce oxygen and supply them to hospitals on priority basis. The minister said the state government has been taking all possible steps to tackle the public health emergency caused by COVID-19 pandemic. “We […]
India’s sugar production rose by 20 per cent to 258.68 lakh tonnes till 15 March, 2021 on higher cane production, industry body ISMA said. The production in the corresponding period in the previous marketing year stood at 216.13 lakh tonnes. Till 28 February, 2021, the government had estimated the sugar mills production of sugar at […]
Sugar production in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest sugar producing state in 2019-20 season, is likely to fall by around 20 per cent year-on-year to around 100 lakh tonnes in the October 2020-September 2021 season as against 126 lakh tonnes in the last season. The dip in production is primarily due to diversion into ethanol […]
The 497 sugar mills operational in the country have together produced nearly 209 lakh tonnes of sugar till February 15 as against 170 lakh tonnes in the corresponding period last year, an increase of nearly 23 per cent. According to a press release issued by industry body Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), while 183 sugar […]
India’s only gold producer Hutti Gold Mines plans to triple annual production of the yellow metal to 5,000 kgs in one-and-a-half years, according to Karnataka Mines and Geology Minister Murugesh R Nirani. Nirani, who completes one month in office as cabinet minister in the BJP-ruled Karnataka government, added that due to COVID-19, the revenue from mines […]
India’s 491 sugar mills have together produced 176.83 lakh (17.683 million) tonnes of sugar in the first four months of the current sugar season, which started on October 1. In the corresponding period of the previous season, the mills produced 141 lakh tonnes. The output is up by around 25%, prompted primarily by an increased […]
State-run Coal India Limited’s coal production, on a provisional basis, fell 4.1 per cent to 60.5 million tonnes (million tonnes) in January 2021 from 63.1 million tonnes in January 2020. Coal India’s coal offtake in January 2021 stood at 53.3 million tonnes, down 4.6 per cent from 55.9 million tonnes in January 2020. Coal India […]
