Vegetable Oil
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Million Tons of Vegetable Oil
RES published in September United Nations Food and riculture Organisation (FAO), e that world vegetable oil s will increase by 150,000 to tons this year. The 1956 s likely to be 14 h million tons, excluding production in 3SR, for which no reliable are available. 1956 rate of annual increase lower than in recent years, reduced supplies of olive and ed oil. 11 be seen from the following ry that coconut oil produc estimated to be about 30,000 tons higher this year than n below are the 1956 es of world vegetable oil pro . in metric tons, with the 1955 production in brackets.
Oils: Soyabean, 2,470,000 00); groundnut, 1,890,000 00); rape and mustard seed, 0 (1,657,000) ; cottonseed, 0 (1,482,000); olive, 830,000 00); sesame, 600,000 (641,000); er, 470,000 (359,000).
Oils: Coconut, 1,920,000 00); palm, 1,130,000 00) ; p almk e r n e 1, 430,000 1) ; babassu, 35,000 (37,000). ig and Technical Oils: Lin )4o,ooo (820,000); castor, (190,000); tung, 110,000 i); oiticica, 11,000 (13,000). 1 totals, excluding USSR: [)0 (14,300,000).