The second output forecast report published by India Ministry of Agriculture on Friday showed that total output of 9 oilseeds was up to 32.89 million tons in India in 2013/14, which increased by 2 million tons or 6.6% than last year, and this is mainly because the peanut yield increase.

These 9 oilseeds are peanut, castor bean, sesame, nigerseed, rapeseed (0, -4839.00, -100.00%), flaxseed, kardiseed, sunflower seed and soybean (4540, -22.00,-0.48%).

India Ministry of Agriculture expected that domestic peanut production would greatly increase to 9.14 million tons in 2013/14, which increased more than 1 time that last year; the output of soybean is expected to be decreased to 12.45 million tons, which was lower than 14.66 million tons of last year; the output of rapeseed production is projected to rise slightly to 8.25 million tons, which was higher than up 8.03 million tons of last year.

Following table is for the estimated major oilseed production in 2013/14 published by India Ministry of Agriculture.

2013/14年度                                            Unit: Million tons