India has established a large capacity of around 27 mn tonnes for solvent extraction, oil refining and vanaspati manufacturing. The working capacity is, however, placed at slightly over 24 mn tonnes. Capacity utilisation is about one-third in all major oilseed processing industries, crushing, refining and vanaspati manufacturing. With over 9% of world oilseeds production, 7% of global protein meal production, 7% of world oil meal export, total oilseeds production of 22 mn tonnes and 7 mn tonnes of edible oil production, India is the fourth largest edible oil economy in the world. And yet over 40% of the edible oil availability in the market is sourced from imports. The imports in the very recent period (November 2003 to April 2004) declined to 1.82 mn tonnes from 2.08 mn tonnes in the corresponding period during the preceding year. The government has, however, confirmed that there was no proposal to reduce the import duty on edible oils. The overall market is expected to grow to a level of 14 mn tonnes in 2006-07, 16 mn tonnes in the terminal year of the decade (2009-10) and eventually to over 20 mn tonnes at the end of the analysis period 2014-15. The near one million tonne branded oil market is currently growing at around 12% a year. Marico Industries is the market leader with its two main brands, Sweekar and Saffola, having 15% market share, followed by ITC Agrotech's Sundrop at 13%. Godrej Foods has a market share of 11% and HLL's Flora has 3%. Leading Brands Grahini, Guinea, Idayam, Kohinoor, Lotus, Palmoleins, Sundrop, Postman, Sweekar, Saffola, Vital Soya, Flora, Dhara Sunflower, Kanodia, Palki, Panghat, Lion, Cornola, Marico, ITC, Sunola, Ankur, Godrej, Ruby, Sunbeam, Parachute, Nature Fresh, Fortune, Gemini, Crystal, Gold winter. Few Indian Major players are as under: Adani Wilmar Ltd. Agro Tech Foods Ltd. Akash Agro Inds. Ltd. Allana Oil Mills Ltd. Ambik Protiens Ltd. Ambuja Agro Industries Ltd. Ankur Protein Inds. Ltd. Arti Agro Inds. Ltd. Asha Agro Inds. Ltd. Ashiana Agro Inds. Ltd. Ashiana Proteins Ltd. [Erstwhile] Atlas Soya Proteins Ltd. B C L Industries & Infrastructures Ltd. Bansal Oil Mill Ltd. Bhaagyalakshmi Vegetable Products Ltd. Bombay Oil Inds. Pvt. Ltd. Budge Budge Refineries Ltd. Chaitanya Oils Ltd. Chakan Vegoils Ltd. Chand Vanaspati Ltd. Chhatar Extractions Ltd. Coromandel Agro Products & Oils Ltd. Dewas Soya Ltd. Dr. M Soy Proteins Ltd. Edible Products (India) Ltd. G S Oils Ltd. Gem Refineries Ltd. Godrej Oil Plantations Ltd. Gokul Refoils & Solvent Ltd. Golden Proteins Ltd. Goyal Proteins Ltd. Hindustan Vegetable Oils Corpn. Ltd. Ichalkaranji Soya Ltd. India Ceroils Ltd. Integrated Proteins Ltd. J R Foods Ltd. J S P Oils & Fats Ltd. Jain Farms Palm Oil Ltd. Jewel Polymers Pvt. Ltd. K P L Oil Mills Pvt. Ltd. K P Solvex Ltd. K S Oils Ltd. Kalyan Solvent Extractions Ltd. Kedia Continental Ltd. Kedia Overseas Ltd. Kemicare Products Ltd. Khalsa Overseas Ltd. Khandesh Extraction Ltd. Kirti Dal Mills Ltd. Kocher Oil Mills Ltd. Kohinoor Feeds & Fats Ltd. Kothari Global Ltd. Capacity :3600.00 MT/Annum 1200 M.T. Cotton Seed Oil/Year 1200 M.T. Ground Nut Oil/Year 1200 M.T. Sunflower Oil/Year