Government takes steps to promote production and export of coconut oil

02 May 2013 Evaluate

In order to promote consumption and export of coconut oil the Government has taken a number of steps. The Coconut Development Board is promoting production of Coconut Oil and value added products from coconut under the ‘Technology Mission on Coconut’ scheme. Under this scheme financial and technical assistance is extended to entrepreneurs for establishing processing units in Coconut sector.

The import duty on crude edible oils has been raised from 0 to 2.5% so as to encourage domestic growers of coconut and producers of coconut oil. Besides, the port restriction for export of coconut oil has been lifted and at present export of coconut oil is permitted through 13 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) ports and also through Land Customs Stations (LCS).

Further, quantitative restriction on export of edible oils including coconut oil in branded consumer packs of up to 5kg has been removed.

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