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India's soybean meal exports fall 63.50% in May: SOPA
Jun-16-2026

The Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA) has said that India's soybean meal exports fell by about 63.50 percent to 50,000 tonnes in May 2026 from 1.37 lakh tonnes in May 2025. The fall in soybean meal exports was due to high prices and the impact of the West Asia crisis.

SOPA Executive Director D N Pathak said Indian soybean meal prices have remained higher than those in major exporting countries like the US, Brazil and Argentina for a long time. He noted ‘After the crisis began, supplies of Indian soybean meal to Iran came to a complete halt. The supply to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) too stopped later’. 

The West Asia crisis also severely affected the exports to Kuwait and Oman. Meanwhile, Soybean meal is the product left after soybean oil is extracted. It is a rich source of protein, and is used to produce soy flour and soybean chunks as well as animal feed and chicken and fish feed.

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