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Production of Palm Oil

Posted On: 10 DEC 2021 6:51PM by PIB Delhi

The State-wise and year-wise details of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and the percentage share of Andhra Pradesh in the total production of CPO during last five years is given at Annexure-I.

As per ICAR-IIOPR, Oil Palm requires less water compared to crops like Rice, Banana and

Sugarcane for its optimum cultivation. Under the National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), emphasis has been given to promote micro irrigation and water conservation in oil palm for efficient water management and judicious use of water.

 

 Oil Palm is not covered under One District One Product (ODOP) scheme.

 

 

The State-wise and year-wise details of Crude Palm Oil during last five years from 2016-17 to 2020-21

(Quantity in Metric Tons)

Sl.

No

State

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

1

Andhra Pradesh (AP)

190999

234696

232938

208359

240016

2

Goa

436

379

411

309

305

3

Karnataka

2051

2224

2280

2184

2734

4

Kerala

5989

5191

4857

4825

4281

5

Mizoram

603

648

625

535

675

6

Tamil Nadu

1194

938

1017

532

698

7

Telangana

8947

27274

37205

38050

39347

 

All India

210219

271349

279332

254794

288056

 

% share of AP

90.86

86.49

83.39

81.77

83.32

This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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