date:Nov 21, 2018
produces around 8-9 million tonne of mustard oil annually. Mustard is an important cash crop, the area under cultivation being over six million hectare. In fact, mustard accounts for 30-35 percent of Indias overall edible oil production, said Verma.
Even though there is a geographical bias in its usage, Indian consumers use mustard oil in large quantities. A study conducted jointly by Yale University and Princeton University found that 90 percent of mustard oil in India was used for cooking, wh