# Gujarat: Oil mills stop crushing for want of raw materials | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

> About 80% of Gujarat's roughly 1,000 edible oil mills have temporarily halted crushing due to shortages of good-quality groundnut and cottonseed. Delayed cotton harvest from September rains and exhausted groundnut stocks are cited as causes.

- Date: 2021-09-24 · published 2021-09-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region India · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45181-gujarat-oil-mills-stop-crushing-for-want-of-raw-materials-ahmedabad-news-times
- Commodities: [Cottonseed Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CSM.md), [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Reduced domestic crushing cuts local supply of cottonseed meal and groundnut meal, which tightens protein feed availability in India. Mills depending on imported sunflower are unaffected.

## Read by commodity

- CSM: bullish ▲
- SUNMEAL: neutral

## Sources

- timesofindia.indiatimes.com: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/oil-mills-stop-crushing-for-want-of-raw-materials/articleshow/86493900.cms

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