Production and consumption of edible oils in India Kalra Lekha*, Srivastava S.K. Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India *Corresponding author: kalralekha135@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 October, 2023. Abstract In India total production of edible oils, without copra oil, increased 142.67 per cent in 2017-18 over the year 1970-71, whereas, with copra the change during the same time period was 144.86 per cent. Soybean oil production over the entire study period increased to the tune of 9363.73 per cent, whereas, niger oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil production decreased as compared to the other edible oils. Total import of edible oil was quite high in all the specified periods, showing huge dependency on imported edible oil to meet out the domestic needs. Though India also exported edible oils but its proportion was less than 01 per cent to the total quantity imported in the years. Import increased of all the oilseeds except groundnut oil, niger oil and copra oil increased many folds from 1970-71 to 2017-18. Among all the edible oils with positive net import the soybean edible oil had lion’s share in all the years. Consumption of groundnut and copra edible oils was less than the production due to their net imports, whereas, reverse picture emerged with respect to soybean edible oil in all the respective periods. Total production of oil from edible oilseeds fell short of about 39 per cent to the total consumption in 2017-18 of edible oil processed from the 07 edible oilseeds which was fulfilled by the import of these edible oils, whereas, when copra oil was also taken into account then this dependency to domestic consumption on owned produced edible oil increased to more than 75 per cent. Top Keywords Oilseeds, Edible oils, Domestic Consumption, Copra oil, Soybean edible oil, Groundnut edible oil. Top |