The industry body, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) has said that exports of Oilmeals slipped around 33% to 97,036 tonne in May 2018 as compared to 144,524 tonne in May 2017, mainly due to lower global demand. The overall export during April-May 2018 declined by 8% to 3,21,179 tonne compared to 3,48,222 tonne in the corresponding period of the previous year.
As per the data, during the first two months of the current fiscal year, rapeseed meal exports increased to nearly 1.43 lakh tonne. It has been mainly exported to South Korea and Thailand. The data showed that oilmeals export to Vietnam fell to 51,568 tonne in April-May 2018 from 59,578 tonne in the year-ago period. South Korea imported 49,768 tonne of oilmeals during the reporting period as compared to 67,920 tonne in the corresponding period of the previous year.
Besides, Thailand imported 62,176 tonne of oilmeals during April-May 2018 as against 29,251 tonne in the year-ago period, while France imported 28,377 tonne as against 1,736 tonne during the period under review. Moreover, the export from Kandla is reported at 147,587 tonne (46%), followed by Mumbai including JNPT at 31,297 tonne (10%), Mundra handled 38,693 tonne (12%) and Kolkata handled 47,173 tonne (15%).
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