Edible Oils No Imports for a Change

Edible Oils: No Imports for a Change?
D P Sharma CROP reports from all the important oilseeds growing areas in the country hold out the bright prospect of kharif production fulfilling the most optimistic expectations. Perhaps never before has the farming community been known to have experienced such ideal weather conditions as this time, the somewhat late and poor start of the monsoon notwithstanding. There is near unanimity among knowledgeable persons in the trade and industry that kharif oilseeds production is now certain to set a new record, leaving the previous best crop out-turn way behind. Because of the highly satisfactory subsoil moisture rabi crop prospects are considered reassuring.