-Livemint.com Global cooking oil prices have surged this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which hit shipments of Sunflower oil from the region. The Black Sea accounts for 76% of world Sunflower oil exports. NEW DELHI: Domestic edible oil prices, already high, are set for a surge as Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, will ban exports from 28 April. Indonesia, too, has been battling high edible oil prices amid domestic...
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Waging war for sustenance -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-The Tribune Disruption in supplies due to Ukraine crisis may create food shortage, price distortions The war in Ukraine has become a war on the world’s poor. Russia and Ukraine, together, accounted for a quarter of the world’s wheat exports, one-sixth of global corn exports, nearly a third of barley and three-fourths of the export of Sunflower oil. American sanctions on Russia mean it cannot sell its extra wheat in the global...
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-The Hindu Business Line Goyal meets industry associations to assess demand-supply situation, alternative plans Representatives of India’s edible oil industry met Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday to discuss ways to check the galloping prices of the cooking medium as disruption of supplies of Sunflower oil due to the on-going Russia-Ukraine conflict threatens to make the situation worse. The meeting, called a day after the Union Food Secretary’s discussion with industry...
More »Cooking oil prices spike in India due to Russia-Ukraine crisis -B Krishna Mohan
-TelanganaToday.com Hyderabad: Prices of cooking oil are on an upwards spiral and have gained up to Rs 25 more per litre. The trade segments attribute the increase in prices to the tightening supplies of Sunflower and safflower oils, both called as sun oils, to the Russia-Ukraine war. Also, palm oil imports are getting costlier due to the internal trade restrictions of Indonesia, the biggest producer of palm oil. On the other hand,...
More »Cooking Oil May Become Costlier Due to Russia-Ukraine War. Know Why
-News18.com Edible oil prices have been climbing unabated globally and in India since the onset of the pandemic. Here's why the Russia-Ukraine War could further drive up cooking oil prices in India Cooking oil price to increase: Prices of cooking oil are set to soar in India as a result of the ongoing crisis between the two top producers and exporters of Sunflower oil — Russia and Ukraine. A war between the...
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