**Table 1.**

*Major oilseed crop and their uses.*


#### **Table 2.**

*Oilseed producing countries and their production worldwide.*

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under sunflower cultivation, accounting for almost 8% of world oilseed market [21]. Mediterranean countries Spain, Greece, Turkey accounts for 90% olive oil production worldwide [14]. India is the second largest consumer after China in vegetable oil consumption for food. Countries like Argentina, United States of America and Brazil are the major soybean exporters to India and China. However, in the recent year of 2021–2022, soybean oil imports in these countries are slowed down due to higher prices of soybean oil and shift towards other oilseed crops like rapeseed especially in India. The record harvest of rapeseed crop in India during 2021–2022, forecast the bumper production of 800,000 tons can reduce the import of oilpalm and sunflower [22].

According to an estimate by USDA [22] India consumes nearly 21.8 million tons of oilseed in 2021–2022. Among oilseed crops, highest vegetable oil for food use followed the order, oilpalm> soybean> rapeseed> sunflower> other oils during 2017–2018 to 2021–2022. India and China are major vegetable oil importers to meet their domestic demands. Globally, India being the fifth largest oilseed economy accounting for 7.4, 5.8, 6.1and 9.3% in oilseed, oil, oil meal and edible oil consumption respectively [23]. Global production of edible oils and major exporters and importers are given in **Table 2**.
