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Japan Ran Out of Matcha. Assam Just Sold Its First Five Kilos.

August 23, 2026

Japan is in the first matcha shortage in its history. Tencha auction prices doubled in a year to ¥10,843 a kilo, and a 40-gram retail t...

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₹71.86 a Litre: Why Maize Is India's Priciest Ethanol Feedstock, Even as This Season's Acreage Falls

August 21, 2026

Maize is now India's most expensive ethanol feedstock by government-set price — ₹71.86 a litre, ahead of sugarcane juice, rice, and...

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Sugar at ₹55.70 a Kilo: Why Cane Acreage Isn't Growing, and Ethanol Is Losing the Diversion Race

August 21, 2026

India's sugarcane acreage barely moved this season, sugar prices just jumped 10 per cent in a month to record levels, and the years...

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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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