By Shakir Husain
NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (NNN-Bernama) — India imported 312,267 tonnes of palm oil from Malaysia in December 2022 while its overall global edible oil imports during the month topped 1.5 million tonnes.
The volumes from Malaysia were made up of 257,525 tonnes of crude palm oil (CPO), 46,743 tonnes of refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palm olein and 7,999 tonnes of crude palm kernel oil (CPKO).
Palm oil’s share in India’s total December edible oil imports of 1.55 million tonnes was 71 per cent, according to monthly data released Thursday by the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors’ Association of India.
In November 2022, India imported 318,825 tonnes of Malaysian palm oil, including 283,425 tonnes of CPO and 29,900 tonnes of RBD palm olein.
— NNN-BERNAMA
