date:Mar 17, 2014
showed. India imports small quantities of soyaoil from South America. Expectations of a bigger rapeseed harvest kept the monthly cooking oil imports down. Harvest of rapeseed, India's main winter season oilseed crop which is crushed to produce rapeseed oil, starts from February and peaks in March.
India's rapeseed harvest in 2014 could rise 7.8 percent to 7.23 million tonnes, according to estimates of the Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade (COOIT). The latest harvest estimate for