Table 4

India- Key vegetable oil statistics.

1989–1991

2000–2002

Imports of soybeans (Mt)

102

432

Imports of soybean oil (Mt)

25,944

1,055,083

Calories available from soybean oil/cap/day

11

48

Imports of palm oil (Mt)

353,790

3,317,333

Calories available from palm oil/cap/day

7

66

Calories available from peanut, cottonseed and rapeseed oils/cap/day

107

76

Calories available from all vegetable oils/cap/day

158

231

Soybean oil as percentage of calories available from all vegetable oils (%)

7

21

Palm oil as percentage of calories available from all vegetable oils (%)

4

28

Source: based on data from FAOSTAT 2005 [42,145,146]. The numbers represent 3 year averages around 1990 and 2001

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