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Contact SupplierOil Seeds Cultivation Oilseeds constitute a very important group of commercial crops in India. The oil extracted from oilseeds form an important item of our diet and are used as raw materials for manufacturing large number of items like paints, varnishes, hydrogenated oil, soaps, perfumery, lubricants, etc. Oil-cake which is the residue after the oil is extracted from the oilseeds, forms an important cattle-feed and manure. India has the largest area and production of oilseeds in the world. Five major oil seeds viz., groundnut, sesame, rapeseed and mustard, linseed and castor seed occupied 212.24 lakh hectares, which is over 15 per cent of the net area sown. If the area occupied by other oilseeds such as soya bean, cotton seed, sunflower, safflower and nigerseed is also included, the total area occupied by oilseeds becomes about 20 per cent of the net area sown. It must, however, be noted that the production of oilseeds has always fallen short of demand. There have been large scale regional variations in area, production and productivity changes in oilseeds. Only a few states like Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal increased their oilseed production both through area expansion and productivity improvement.