Soyameal Continues To Dominate Export Basket

Mumbai: For oil meal exports, the new fiscal has started well with shipment of 4.33 lakh tonnes. This comes after meal exports reports a record 51.7 lakh tonnes during fiscal 2006-07. Soyameal continues to dominate the export basket with shipment of 2.51 lakh tonnes last month, while rapeseed extraction exports reached 1.08 lakh tonnes. Other extractions exported comprised ricebran (33,200 tonnes), groundnut (4,600 tonnes) and castorseed (36,100 tonnes). About 2.61 lakh tonnes or over 60 per cent of the meals was shipped out of Kandla port, followed by Mumbai (55,450 tonnes), Bedi (52,700 tonnes) and Kakinada (38,225 tonnes). Major destinations were China (1.01 lakh tonnes), Vietnam (1.02 lakh tonnes) and South Korea (86,000 tonnes).