India’s oilmeals exports declined by 42.5 per cent in January due to a sharp fall in the exports of soybean meal and rapeseed meal. India exported 2.60 lakh tonnes (lt) of oilmeals during January 2026 against 4.52 lt in January 2025. In January 2026, India’s export of soybean meal declined to 1.32 lt (2.86 lt in January 2025) and rapeseed meal to 64,782 tonnes (1.31 lt).
Total exports of oilmeals declined by 10 per cent during April-January 2025-26. India exported 32.35 lt of oilmeals during April-January 2025-26 against 36.03 lt in the corresponding period of 2024-25. BV Mehta, Executive Director of the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA), said the rapeseed crushing has declined in the recent days. This has limited the processing into oil and oilmeal until the new crop supplies arrive in February-March.
