A new Mission on Oil palm to be known as the National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NMEO-O

• P as a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme with a special focus on the North east region and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  Due to the heavy dependence on imports for edible oils, it is important to make efforts for increasing the domestic production of edible oils in which increasing area and productivity of oil palm plays an important part. In the mission, How much hectare of land bring additionally for palm oil cultivation?