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Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Limited ‘Lakshmi Chambers’, 192, St. Mary’s Road, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600 018. INDIA. Phone: 91 (044) 66229000 ● Fax: 91 (044) 66229011 / 66229012 E-mail: contact@hoec.com ● Website: www.hoec.com CIN: L11100GJ1996PLC029880 June 24, 2026 By Online The Listing Department The Corporate Relationship Department National Stock Exchange of India Ltd., BSE Limited “Exchange Plaza”, Bandra Kurla Complex, 1st Floor, P. 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The above information is also available on the website of the Company – www.hoec.com We request you to kindly take our aforesaid submission on record Yours Sincerely, For Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Limited Baroruchi Mishra Managing Director & CEO DIN: 09223144 Encl: a/a Registered Office: ‘HOEC HOUSE’, Tandalja Road, Off Old Padra Road, Vadodara - 390 020. INDIA. Phone: 91 (0265) 2330766 ● E-mail: contact@hoec.com ● Website: www.hoec.com 8 bl commodities.agri.business MUMBAI businessline. WEDNESDAY-JUNE24-2026 QUICKLY. Crops in 111 districts most vulnerable Monsoon enters Mumbai after a fortnight, eyes Gold drops 2% as rate-hike bets lift dollar to monsoon deficit, says government Gujarat and UP next PARCHED PLAINS. Vinson Kurian 315 districts have been identified as potentially affected by weak monsoon conditions Thiruvananthapuram Around 315 districts have Watch Group is also tracking Nearly a fortnight behind Prabhudatta Mishra been identified as potentially real-time information and schedule, the monsoon fi- New Delhi affected by weak monsoon issuing advisories regularly. nally swept into Mumbai on Gold prices dropped on conditions. Of these, there The Indian Council of Ag- Tuesday, the India Meteoro- Tuesday as the US dollar hit a Preparing for a potential su- are 111 districts (including ricultural Research (ICAR) logical Department (IMD) one-year high on increased per El Nino in 2026, the gov- 22 in Maharashtra and 10 in has prepared comprehensive announced. expectations of a rate hike ernment has identified 111 Chhattisgarh), which are guidelines for the States to The monsoon’s northern from the Federal Reserve, districts highly vulnerable to classified as the ‘most’ vul- work with farmers at differ- limit ran through Dahanu, outweighing support from crop damage due to low irrig- nerable as they have irriga- ent stages of the monsoon about 150 km north of Mum- Monsoon moisture filled softer oil prices amid progress ation and high risks of rain tion coverage of less than 25 season based on rainfall defi- bai, extending eastward Central and East India after in US-Iran talks. Spot gold shortage. This looming per cent of their cultivable cit and sowing pattern. across Wardha in Maha- the revival of seasonal rain dipped 1.7 per cent to weather pattern threatens to land, the Ministry said in a TAKING STOCK.Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan “When monsoon onset is rashtra, Raipur in Chhattis- on Tuesday afternoon $4,118.73 per ounce by 9.26 cut agricultural output and statement. reviewed crop sowing progress with officials from the delayed by one to two weeks, garh, Daltonganj in am ET (1326 GMT). US gold drive up inflation. Agriculture Ministry, the ICAR, the Rural Development Ministry farmers need to continue Jharkhand and Motihari in laden monsoon winds to futures for August delivery fell Agriculture Minister Shiv- CONTINGENCY PLANS and the India Meteorological Department X.COM/CHOUHANSHIVRAJ with normal crops using Bihar, before linking up with surge inland and trigger rain- 1.6 per cent to $4,135.60 per raj Singh Chouhan on Tues- “Another 76 districts fall un- short-duration varieties. the North-East. fall across Central and ounce. REUTERS day said that weak monsoon der the medium-priority cat- cient rainfall conditions. rather than depend on a Suitable technologies like North-West India. conditions were likely to per- egory with irrigation cover- Madhya Pradesh, Maha- single crop. seed treatment, increased BACK ON TRACK Weather models indicate sist until July 2 and cau- age between 25 and 50 per rashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gu- “There is a gap in rainfall. seed rate, closer spacing and With its advance back on this coupling process is likely Aluminium falls on tioned that the kharif crops cent, while 128 districts have jarat, Uttar Pradesh, Ra- We need to suggest to farm- ridge-and-furrow planting track, rains are set to spread underway. Initial signs point Gulf supply prospects could be impacted. been classified as low prior- jasthan, Karnataka, Bihar, ers to go for alternative techniques should be en- into Gujarat, more parts of to the formation of a land- He undertook a review of ity owing to relatively better Jharkhand, Telangana, crops. We will not let fields couraged,” said a senior Maharashtra and Chhattis- based cyclonic circulation the crop sowing progress irrigation facilities through Andhra Pradesh and Odisha remain empty,” Chouhan ICAR scientist. If delays ex- garh, and pockets of Madhya over eastern India, with the London:Aluminium prices fell and rainfall in different parts dams and other sources,” it have been directed to pro- said, adding the availability tend to 2-4 weeks, drought- Pradesh over the next two to potential for a low-pressure to their lowest in almost three with officials from the Agri- said. mote pulses, oilseeds and of seeds and fertilizers is ad- tolerant crop alternatives, three days. The remaining area to emerge over the Bay months on Tuesday as the US culture Ministry, the ICAR, The Ministry has drawn coarse cereals that require equate for the kharif season. such as millets, green gram parts of Jharkhand and Bihar during the opening days of granted Iran a 60-day sanctions the Rural Development Min- up State-wise contingency less water, and to encourage The Ministry has set up an (moong), black gram (urad), and sections of Uttar Pra- July. If realised, the system waiver following initial peace istry and the India Meteoro- plans recommending altern- short-duration and climate- El Nino Monitoring Cell, cowpea (huar) and sesame desh are expected to come could provide the mo- e 2 talks, improving prospects for a logical Department (IMD). ative crops suited to defi- resilient seed varieties while its Crop Weather should be planted, he said. under its sweep over three to mentum needed for a sus- e 2 7 4 resumption in Gulf shipments four days thereafter. tained and vigorous mon- 7 4 9 through the Strait of Hormuz. The revival has already de- soon. 9 0 The benchmark three-month El Nino could weigh on sugarcane production livered a widespread burst of Meanwhile, the European 0 aluminium on the London rain. During the 24 hours Centre for Medium-Range Metal Exchange was down 2.8 ending Tuesday morning, Weather Forecasts indicates per cent at $3,269 a tonne in heavy to very heavy rainfall rainfall for the coast through official open-outcry trading, dia’s sugarcane crop. Uttar review and refine monsoon which we consider, but then lashed isolated areas of the ongoing fortnight ending after hitting $3,225.5, its lowest Our Bureau Pradesh’s reservoirs are also forecasts after about 45 days it is not as harmful as El Konkan and Goa (including July 6. Thereafter, rainfall since March 26. REUTERS Bengaluru in a better position than two of rainfall data, early indica- Nino,” Sharma said. Mumbai), Telangana, Tamil may weaken and could even years [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]