Most of the countries in European union and other countries not using palm oil for cooking purpose. But in south asia especially India is largest consumer of palm oil. Though palm oil not good for health. But still why government is promoting palm oil cultivation.
Dear Rajashekhar Mandla
Palm oil is the most flexible of all vegetable oils, thus demand continues to rise. This is due to the fact that palm and palm kernel oil can be processed into a variety of products with varying melting points, consistencies, and properties. That is the reason why GOI taking keen interest on it
palm oil is not particularly "bad" nutritionnaly (taking into account that unsaturation is not a good idea for cooking oils notably for frying, palm oil is perfectly adequate for cooking uses, that palm oil can be rich in carotenoids, and the very high oil yield of palm cultivation). The problem with palm oil is land allocation and deforestation. Euroepans do not use palm oil (specially red palm oil) because of cultural habits, it is more animal fats (butter and lard), peanut oil and olive oil for cooking, palm and palm kernel oil being also major components in margarine (considered a butter substitute) and solid fats for frying.
One of the reasons may be that India imports>75% of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia. The total worth of the palm oil business in India is around US$ 10Bn. Hence GOI is promoting palm oil cultivation to reduce the stress of import of palm oil since peninsular India has the appropriate climate for its cultivation.
Agree with Dr. Mohammad Yusuf
Consumption of palm oil and its derivatives has grown by almost 230% over the last two decades in India.
Therefore the govt. is trying to reduce its financial burden from the import of palm oil.
Good to hear the answers from the connections. But the scenario of oil palm cultivation is not so impressive though many developmental steps have been taken by GOI. It has to be popularised more and the worth of cultivating oil palm still to be well understood by the non oil-palm farmers.
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