The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is focused on promoting the area and production of Sunflower in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is an important oilseed crop in India, popularly known as \u201cSurajmukhi.\u201d It is known as a sunflower as it follows the sun by day, always turning towards its direct rays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sunflower is a major source of vegetable oil in the world. It is used for a variety of cooking purposes. Sunflower seed contains about 48 \u2013 53% edible oil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Largest\u00a0 Producer of Sunflower in the World:<\/b> Ukraine is the largest producer of sunflower. (<\/span>Ukraine and Russia together account for about 60% of the global sunflower oil production and exports).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Sunflower Production States in India:<\/b> In India, Sunflower <\/span>is grown mainly in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sunflower oil accounts for 10-12%\u00a0 of India’s total 220-230 lakh tonnes of annual domestic demand for cooking oils.<\/span><\/p>\n As much as 90% of India\u2019s sunflower oil requirement comes from Ukraine (70%) and Russia (20%).<\/span><\/p>\n However, <\/span>supply disruptions caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict would result in a supply shortfall of at least 4-6 lakh tonnes of crude sunflower oil for India next fiscal and impact the production of domestic edible oil processors.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Government’s emphasis on promoting sunflower area and production in the country<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on 31st March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is focused on promoting the area and production of Sunflower in the country. About Sunflower Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is an important oilseed crop in India, popularly known as \u201cSurajmukhi.\u201d It is known as a sunflower as it follows the sun by day, always… Continue reading Government’s emphasis on promoting sunflower area and production in the country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-177141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Sunflower<\/b><\/h5>\n
India\u2019s Sunflower Oil Imports Dependence<\/b><\/h5>\n