date:Jun 17, 2014
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The country's total vegetable oil imports rose 24 percent from a month ago to 1.03 million tonnes in May, data from the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) showed on Monday. Imports of soyaoil rose 54 percent to 174,209 tonnes, while sunflower oil imports rose to 5 percent to 178,753 tonnes.
India mainly buys palm oil from top producers Indonesia and Malaysia, and a small sum of crude soft oils, including soyaoil from Latin America and sunflower oil from Ukraine and Russia