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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