New Delhi, June 6 -- India has emerged as a key supplier of oil meal for China's livestock and poultry feed, with exports having surged more than 25-fold to $157 million in 2025, as Beijing diversifies feed imports away from its traditional suppliers. India had shipped out oil meal worth $6.1 million in 2024. According to the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) data, reviewed by Mint, India's oil meal exports to China has surged from $15.7 million in 2015, marking a nearly 900% rise over the decade, and raising China's share in India's global oil meal shipments to 13.5% in 2025 from 0.4% in 2024. The shift comes as China, world's largest consumer of animal feed ingredients, looks to reduce dependence on its traditional suppliers such as the US, Brazil and Argentina amid periodic supply disruptions, weather-related production risks and volatility in global agricultural commodity prices. China was a marginal market for Indian oil meal exports for most of the past decade, accounting for less than 2% of the shipments in most years. Oil meal is the protein-rich by-product left after extracting oil from oilseeds such as soybean, mustard, and groundnut....