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As soyabean, cotton and tur trade below MSP, Maharashtra farmers hope for govt intervention

August 27, 2025 2:12 pm

With the monsoon season coming to an end, farmers in Maharashtra are concerned about the upcoming harvest of their kharif crops.

US farmers can offer non-GM soybean products to India: USSEC chief Jim Sutter

May 19, 2025 9:31 pm

Sutter said he does not view regulatory challenges in India around genetically modified (GM) products as a non-tariff barrier

Assembly polls ahead, Centre steps in to rescue Maharashtra farmers as soyabean prices fall below MSP

September 07, 2024 9:14 am

The Union government is set to procure one-fourth of state's production, with politically crucial Marathwada particularly hit due to fall in soyabean prices. The issue is believed to have also hurt NDA parties in LS polls.

Double trouble: Maharashtra’s Marathwada, Vidarbha farmers face losses amid lower yields, poor prices of cotton and soyabean

November 01, 2023 2:46 am

The easy import of edible oil, solvent and extractors said, is responsible for the price drop.

That pulses are not prioritised speaks of perverse policies that encourage crops requiring more water and chemical fertilisers

August 04, 2022 9:07 am

The primary driver in this is, however, prices. Soyabean is trading roughly 50 per cent above its minimum support price (MSP).

Rains, falling prices prompt farmers to shift from pulses to soyabean, cotton

August 01, 2022 12:47 pm

According to the Union Agriculture Ministry’s latest compiled data as of July 29, farmers have so far sown 106.18 lakh hectares (lh) area under pulses in the current kharif cropping season from June 1. This is above last year’s corresponding area coverage of 103.23 lh.

Maharashtra: Farmers withhold soyabean stock, hope for prices above Rs 8,000 per quintal

November 28, 2021 5:44 pm

🔴 On Saturday, the average rates for soyabean in APMCs stood at Rs 7,150 per quintal. The farmers expect the prices to peak at Rs 9,000 to Rs 10,000 per quintal

After DGFT nod, India all set to import 12 lakh tonnes of genetically modified deoiled soya cake

August 26, 2021 7:26 am

This would be the first time India has allowed import of GM deoiled soya cake, to be used as a raw material in the poultry feed industry.

As protein prices skyrocket, poultry industry faces abnormal increase in production cost

April 14, 2021 10:55 pm

Soyameal or soyameal cake, the solid substance left after oil is expelled from the seed, forms the 30 per cent protein component of poultry feed, with maize forming the carbohydrate component or 70 per cent of the feed.

Reports of crop damage in MP, Maharashtra push up soyabean price

October 28, 2020 10:28 am

The shortfall in supply will result in minimal export of the deoiled soya cake, said Naresh Goenka, vice-president of the Soyabean Processors Association of India (SOPA).

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