India August Vegetable Oil Imports Up 64% At 1.07 Mln Tons

Sep 14 2010 1:29PM

MUMBAI (Dow Jones)--India's vegetable oil imports in August rose 64% from a year earlier to 1.07 million metric tons, the highest ever in a single month since 1994, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India said Tuesday.

Total vegetable oil imports during the first ten months of the marketing year that began on Nov. 1 rose 5% to 7.45 million tons from 7.07 million tons a year earlier, the trade body said.

Edible oil imports in August totalled 1.0 million tons, up from 612,898 tons a year earlier, it added.

The following table shows the comparative details:

(All figures in tons)

Product August 2010 August 2009

Vegetable Oil 1,065,641 650,603

Edible Oil 1,000,942 612,898

Crude Palm Oil 547,878 372,976

RBD Palm Olein 139,481 109,528

Soyoil 216,966 96,474