India, one of the world’s top urea importers, was able to secure less than 25% of the crop nutrient it sought in a tender last month, indicating that hostilities in the Middle East continue to keep farm input costs elevated.

India, a major fertilizer importer, received offers in a urea tender nearly 10% below its August purchase price, signaling some relief for global farmers that have faced surging input costs this year.

India’s monsoon-sown crops are likely to have been affected by rainfall deficits in some areas and excessive precipitation in others, Farm Secretary Atish Chandra said.

India, the top edible-oil buyer, halved import taxes on crude palm and soybean oils to ease local prices heading into the festive season.

Bangladesh has resumed wheat purchases from its western neighbor, after India’s plentiful supply encouraged it to lift an export ban at a time when Black Sea trade disruptions have sent global prices soaring.

India is on course for its driest monsoon in 17 years as a strengthening El Niño curbs rainfall, threatening crop yields and raising food-price risks.

The traditional thali is taking a bigger bite out of household budgets.

Cocoa futures headed for a weekly decline, as the market grapples with the prospect of sufficient short-term supplies being followed by a deficit in the season ahead.

Ghana’s cocoa output could tumble by more than a third as adverse weather and disease stresses trees, its state-run exporter said, adding to the strain on global supply of the chocolate ingredient.

The global cocoa market is poised to face a supply shortfall for the first time in three years as a strengthening El Niño threatens production across key growing regions, according to Asia’s top processor.

India’s weaker-than-normal monsoon is threatening key crops, heightening the risk that food prices will rise in the world’s most populous nation.

China is expected to ship at least 1.2 million tons of a key fertilizer variety to India, marking a ramp-up in sales from the world’s top producer after Beijing loosened export controls earlier this year.

Indian refiners will divert 350,000 tons of sugar originally headed offshore into the local market, people familiar with the matter said, after authorities cleared the move to ease a supply crunch.

India, one of the world’s biggest wheat producers, has scrapped a years-long ban on exports of the grain, a move that could ease global supplies that are under strain from escalating attacks between Russia and Ukraine.

India, the world’s second-biggest sugar producer, has allowed mills and refiners to import duty-free raw sugar in an effort to tame record local prices.

Raw sugar climbed to the highest in more than a year, on signs of buying interest in India amid prospects of the country easing import duties because of tight supplies.

India’s monsoon crop planting has largely recovered after normal July rains helped offset the driest June in 12 years, potentially easing food inflation if the precipitation persists.

India, the world’s No. 2 sugar producer, is considering cutting import duties on the commodity to help curb domestic prices that recently rose to a record.

India, one of the world’s biggest urea importers, received offers for the soil nutrient that were 12% below the June purchase price, signaling that the war-driven tightness in the global fertilizer market is easing.

Indian sugar producers are set to start crushing cane earlier than usual in the upcoming milling season as the government seeks to bolster supplies and rein in record prices ahead of the festival period.