Vegetable Oil Production Meets Only 10% of Demand

Only around 150,000 tons of the annual domestic demand for refined edible oil are produced locally, while more than 1.5 million tons are supplied via imports, according to the Government Trade Corporation.
Over 183,000 hectares go under colza cultivation every year, from which close to 295,000 tons of the oilseed are harvested, Mehr News Agency reported.
Golestan, in the north of the country with 51,000 hectares under cultivation and an annual yield of around 80,000 tons, tops the list of provinces where colza is produced, followed by Khuzestan Province in the south with 45,500 hectares producing around 76,000 tons of the oilseed.