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Competitiveness and Efficiency in Groundnut Oil Sector of India

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Title Competitiveness and Efficiency in Groundnut Oil Sector of India
 
Creator Reddy, A A
Bantilan, M C S
 
Subject Groundnut
Oil seeds
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Groundnuts are a major source of edible oils in India.
One of the central problems of groundnut production and
processing sectors are huge inefficiencies due to uncertain
production environment owing to rainfed cultivation,
less resource base of smallholder farmers and processors,
and low adoption rate of improved technology. This
policy brief addresses critical issues binding groundnut
oil sector inefficiency and international competitiveness.
With the widening gap between demand and supply
of edible oils in India, policy action is imperative not
only to arrest surging imports of edible oils but also
to benefit both producers and consumers in terms of
broader employment generation and decentralized
rural industrialization. Specific policy implications are
highlighted in this policy brief, which encompass a) the
harnessing of improved varieties with attributes like
drought tolerance, high oil content, high productivity
for large scale seed multiplication/distribution by both
public and private agencies; b) viable village seed banks
and seed networks through cycles of rabi (postrainy)
season seed multiplication to meet the seed requirements
of kharif (rainy season) and vice versa; c) low-cost
technologies to increase profitability and reduce risk; d)
oilseed clusters to facilitate scale economies and capacity
utilization in processing units; and e) capital subsidies to
accelerate technological upgrading to shed inefficiency in
the processing sector. The expected gains in efficiency in
both production and processing of oilseeds are expected
to produce measurable producer and consumer benefits,
which will justify proposed non-market distorted
subsidy for both seeds and technological upgrading in the
processing sector.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7648/1/PB14.pdf
Reddy, A A and Bantilan, M C S (2011) Competitiveness and Efficiency in Groundnut Oil Sector of India. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.