*Ph.D Research Scholar (Part-Time-External), Dept of Economics, The New College (Autonomous), Chennai
**Associate Professor and Research Supervisor, Department of Economics, The New College (University of Madras), Chennai
Online published on 16 April, 2014.
This paper assesses the production and import of edible vegetable oils in india. The vegetable oil industry has over 15,000 oil mills, 600 solvent extraction units, 250 vanaspati units and over 600 refining units. They jointly employ over 1 million people and have a turnover of about US$17 billion. However, only 35–50% of capacity is being currently utilised. Oilseed production is vulnerable to vagaries of weather, as much of the acreage is located in the non-irrigated areas of the country.
Vegetable oil, import, production, vegetable oil industry
