India's edible oil imports seen at lowest in six years, hit by Covid-19 high prices
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MUMBAI (Sept 8): India's imports of edible oil could fall to their lowest in six years, contracting for a second straight year because of the coronavirus outbreak and demand squeezed by record prices, a senior industry official said on Wednesday. Lower purchases by the world's biggest importer of vegetable oils could weigh on benchmark Malaysian palm oil, US soy oil, and sunflower oil prices.
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MUMBAI (Sept 8): India's imports of edible oil could fall to their lowest in six years, contracting for a second straight year because of the coronavirus outbreak and demand squeezed by record prices, a senior industry official said on Wednesday. Lower purchases by the world's biggest importer of vegetable oils could weigh on benchmark Malaysian palm oil, US soyoil and sunflower oil prices. India's consumption, which had grown every year before the coronavirus outbreak hit last year, fell to 21 million tonnes in the marketing year that ended last Oct 31, from 22.5 million a year ago, an official of a trade body said. Demand is unlikely to recover in the current 2020/21 marketing year because of record high prices, said BV Mehta, the executive director of the Solvent Extractors' Association of India. India's edible oil imports in 2020/21 could fall to 13.1 million tonnes, the lowest in six years, from last year's figure of 13.2 million, Mehta added. "India is a very price sensitive ...