NEW DELH: India could produce up to 13 percent more rapeseed oil in 2014 as farmers take advantage of monsoon-soaked land to grow the more lucrative crop, traders said, which would help curb imports and its trade deficit.
Increased domestic rapeseed output could help India, top global importer of edible oils, rein in its purchases of palm oil from Malaysia and Indonesia next year.
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