{"id":1327,"date":"2015-01-23T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:06:26","slug":"production-of-castor-seed-global-india-production-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/production-of-castor-seed-global-india-production-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Production of Castor Seed \u2013 Global &#038; India Production Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that India is the world\u2019s largest producer of castor seed.<\/p>\n<p>This blog post provides brief details of the castor seed production status for India and other main castor producing countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Castor Seed Producers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Castor Seed Exporters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the global sector, 85% of castor seed comes from India (which includes 76% from Gujarat, 13% from Andhra Pradesh, 9% from Rajasthan and 3% from other states), 7% from China and 2% from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The following table provides an outline of production rates of castor seed by different countries over the period 2011-2014.<\/p>\n<table width=\"519\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"112\"><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>2011-12<\/strong><strong>(million tons)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"112\"><strong>2012-13<\/strong><strong>(million tons)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"177\"><strong>% of total in \u201811-12 and \u201812-13<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"112\">India<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">1.57<\/td>\n<td width=\"112\">1.14<\/td>\n<td width=\"177\">79% &amp; 76%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"112\">China<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">0.18<\/td>\n<td width=\"112\">0.18<\/td>\n<td width=\"177\">9% &amp; 12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"112\">Brazil<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">0.14<\/td>\n<td width=\"112\">0.08<\/td>\n<td width=\"177\">7% &amp; 5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"112\">Rest<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">0.12<\/td>\n<td width=\"112\">0.10<\/td>\n<td width=\"177\">6% &amp; 7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Castor Oil &amp; Derivatives\u00a0Global Trading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Castor Oil Importers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main importers of castor oil and basic derivatives are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>European Union (imports 100,000+ T annually)<\/li>\n<li>China (imports over 100,000 T annually)<\/li>\n<li>USA (imports 300,000-500,000 T per year)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main importers of castor cake are South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Iran, and Thailand. A large percentage of imports of oil and cake are from India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that India is the world\u2019s largest producer of castor seed. This blog post provides brief details of the castor seed production status for India and other main castor producing countries. Castor Seed Producers\u00a0 Castor Seed Exporters &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/production-of-castor-seed-global-india-production-status\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-india-2","category-castor-seeds","category-castor-seeds-_-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}