Climate change effects oil crops, causing production issues: Dr. Fateh Marri.

HYDERABAD -- The Vice Chancellor Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam Dr. Fateh Marri has said that edible oil production problems have increased in Pakistan due to the decrease in the area of oil crops and climatic change.

The situation has led to shortage of edible oil and increase in oil import bill, he said while expressing his views on Tuesday during a PhD seminar titled "Evaluation of sunflower hybrids for yield and oil traits under water stress condition" by Majid Hussain Kaleri, a scholar of the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics.

Dr. Fateh Marri said that edible oil imports in Pakistan were the second largest capital expenditure after petroleum adding that during first 11 months of the fiscal year ending June 2022, Pakistan's cooking oil imports were 3.56 billion Dollar.

He said Pakistan's dependence on imports of edible oil and oilseeds to meet its domestic demand for edible oil has been increasing over the past two decades.

Dr. Fateh Marri said that during 2020, about 86 percent of the domestic edible oil consumption had to be imported, which is a big challenge for the experts.

Sindh Agriculture University is working on oilseed crops in the light of joint agreements with various national and international institutions, he informed and added the plant breeding and genetics department of the university is performing important research...

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