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Agriculture Ministry seeks to boost oilseeds output

-The Hindu Business Line

Targets 45 mt from nine crops by 2022

Bengaluru:
After giving a fillip to the production of pulses through various strategies, the Agriculture Ministry is focussing on boosting oilseeds production over the next four years.

The Ministry has proposed various strategies, including promoting the cultivation of oilseeds in non-traditional areas and cropping seasons besides targeting rice fallows to boost the domestic output, which could help reduce import dependence for edible oils by 2022. The Ministry will be deliberating on these strategies with the States at the National Conference on Agriculture for Rabi Campaign 2018-19 in New Delhi on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Ministry has pegged the country’s total vegetable oil requirement at 33.2 million tonnes by 2022 as per the agenda note circulated for the rabi conference.

The current annual vegoil requirement is about 23 mt . The increase in the demand estimates by the Ministry assumes a per capita consumption of about 22 kg by 2022 from the level of 19 kg per person per annum during 2015-16.

The production of nine annual oilseed crops (primary source) has been targeted at 45.65 mt from which availability of vegetable oils would be about 13.69 mt by 2022 as against the current annual output of 7.31 mt.

Similarly, vegetable oil availability from secondary sources such as coconut, cotton seed, rice bran, solvent extracted oil (SEO) of tree and forest origin has been estimated at 5.22 mtby 2022 from the present level of 3.58 mt.

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