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The central government has prepared a five-year schedule to double India's edible oil production and reduce import dependence, through expansion in sowing area and yield.At a recent rabi conference, the ministry of agriculture revealed the plan, to take annual production to 13.69 million tonnes by 2022, as against the current 7.31 mt.Several such roadmaps were drawn in the past, too but the momentum did not continue. Sustained increase in consumption against stagnating production widened India's import dependence to 67 per cent for 2016-17, with an estimated demand of 24.5 mt."Despite notable performance in domestic production of the nine annual crops (compound annual growth rate of 3.89 per cent), it could not match the galloping rate of per capita demand (around six per cent) due to enhanced per capita consumption (19 kg edible oil per annum), driven by increase in population and enhanced per capita income. The production of nine annual oilseed crops (primary source) has been ...

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