a. As agricultural produce, oil seeds rank second to food grains in the Indian economy.
b. Oil-seeds provide vegetable oils which are being preferred to animal fats now-a-days, as people are becoming more and more health conscious.
c. Edible oils form a necessary part of our diet and provide energy.
d. Extraction of edible oil from oil-seeds in mills and ghanis gives employment to people. The oil industry provides employment to more than 10 million people.
e. Oil-cake is used as cattle feed and also as fertilizer for crops like cotton, tobacco, tea, sugarcane, etc.
f. Linseed oil and other vegetable oils are in demand in the manufacture of paints, varnishes and lubricants.
