India's oilseed output rose 2.2 percent to 26.01 million tonnes in the current crop year, a leading trade body said on Sunday, with the main winter-sown rapeseed crop hit by adverse weather conditions, and suggesting edible oil imports might rise.
Output of rapeseed dropped by 12.6 percent to 6.03 million tonnes in the year to June 2012, said the Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade, which usually gives its estimate for the full year in mid-March after the crop has been harvested. The forecasts for both oilseed and rapeseed output are below farm ministry expectations but ahead of traders' forecasts for a 25 percent fall in rapeseed output made in February.