Soybean Output

India's soybean production is expected to decline marginally by 2.11 per cent to 107.93 lakh tonnes in the ongoing Kharif season despite drought-like conditions in several regions, the Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA) has said. Higher output in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will likely largely offset crop losses in Maharashtra, according to the association's first crop estimate report. The data was shared during the concluding session of SOPA's international soybean conference in Indore on Saturday. Soybean is a key oilseed crop that provides domestic cooking oil and a protein base for the livestock and poultry industries. Overall production is estimated to decline by 2.11 per cent from the previous season, the association said. It attributed the losses in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana to prolonged dry spells and moisture deficiency during critical stages of crop growth. Soybean crops sown across a combined 7.02 lakh hectares in these three states were completel

Soybean prices climbed to ₹7,587 per 100 kg last month, a four-year high and well above the government's support price of ₹5,328

The production of soybean, known as yellow gold' among farmers, is expected to decline in the country by about 20.5 lakh tonnes this year to 105.36 lakh tonnes, an industry association has said. The Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA) cited the decrease in soybean acreage and productivity as well as the impact of adverse weather on the crop as reasons for the estimated fall. SOPA on Thursday released its annual report at the International Soy Conclave 2025 in Indore in the presence of hundreds of representatives of the oilseeds industry. According to the report, soybean was sown on 114.56 lakh hectares during the current Kharif season, and its production was 105.36 million tonnes, with an average productivity of 920 kg per hectare. The industry body said that during the 2024 Kharif season, soybean was sown on 118.32 lakh hectares in the country, and the production was 125.82 lakh tonnes, with average productivity of 1,063 kg per hectare. This year, the soybean crop suff

The Centre has procured a record 13.73 lakh tonne of soybean under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme so far in the current marketing season, a senior agriculture ministry official said on Thursday. The procurement, undertaken to protect farmers from falling prices, has surpassed all previous records, with the last highest procurement being 19,483 tonne in 2018-19. "In soybean, we have achieved an all-time high procurement under PSS (Price Support Scheme). This was possible due to special efforts the ministry took to create awareness in states," the ministry official told PTI on condition of anonymity. The procurement represents 41 per cent of the total sanctioned quantity of 33.85 LT and has benefited 5.78 lakh farmers till January 13 of the 2024-25 kharif marketing season. The procurement is being carried out through nodal agencies Nafed and NCCF at a support price of Rs 4,892 per quintal across six states. Nafed has procured 9.78 lakh tonne, while NCCF has procured about 3.

Low soybean output could have a bearing on the prices, as it is one of the largest oilseeds grown in the kharif season

Hu also emphasized stabilising planted grains acreage and strengthening farmland protection, reiterating policies previously laid out by central leadership, Xinhua said

India's soybean meal exports grew two-and-a-half times to 5.99 lakh tonnes during the first quarter of current oil marketing year

Though farmers and agriculture dept officials taken pest control measures, it will be very difficult to revive the crop in those parts where the stem fly has already entered the shoot

Soybean Processors' Association estimates India's soybean output at 9.3 million tonnes for crop year 2019-20, a sharp decline from 10.9 million tonnes reported in 2018-19

It could also revive Indian exports of animal feed ingredient soymeal to places such as Bangladesh, Japan, Vietnam and Iran

SOPA had earlier estimated the overall soybean output at 11.48 mt for the kharif harvesting season 2018

This year's country's oilseed output failed to keep its pace with rising consumer demand of cooking oil from.The latest survey by the apex industry body the Soybean Processors' Association (SOPA) estimates India's soybean output at 8.35 million tonnes for the harvesting season 2017-18, around 24 per cent lower than 10.9 million tonnes reported in the previous year. Sown with the onset of the monsoon, soybean is a kharif crop which contributes nearly one-third of India's overall oilseeds' output and sets trend for other seeds including groundnut, sesame seed etc for the summer-sown crop and rape/mustard seed for winter-sown crop.Earlier, SOPA had estimated India's soybean output at 9.15 million tonnes in its first survey in October. By contrast, however, the Union Ministry of Agriculture has estimated India's total soybean output at 12.22 million tonnes in its 1st advanced estimate for the season 2017-18 compared to 13.79 million tonnes of output estimated in its fourth Advanced ...