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Produce purified safe cooking oils for public consumption

CURRENTLY, relevant ministries and private organizations are joining hands in the implementation of the projects to extend the cultivation of oil crops, oil sufficiency and upgrade of oil mills across the nation.

Myanmar cultivates groundnut, sesame, sunflower, oil palm, niger, canola and horse gram but produces groundnut oil and sesame oil for domestic consumption. Local people are also in touch with using these two kinds of oil for consumption.

Actually, the production of cooking oils is not sufficient in the nation. So, the government imports some 800,000 tonnes of cook­ing oils per year by spending a large sum of foreign exchange. As such, efforts are being made to increase the sown acreage of oil crops, ensure oil sufficiency and upgrade the oil mills.

At present, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation manages the meas­ures to ensure cooking oil suf­ficiency and produce purified cooking oils whereas the Min­istry of Cooperatives and Rural Development emphasizes the construction of small-scale oil mills and cultivation of oil crops through the united strength of groups of farmers and coopera­tive societies, availability of raw materials for the oil mills and improvement of small-scale oil mills.

At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce is ful­filling the requirements for operating the local oil mills at full capacity, implementing the policies for seeking the refinery techniques for cooking oils and subjective-wise measures for oil production.

Moreover, the Ministry of Science and Technology arranges the measures to set the standards and norms for the production of cooking oils, laboratory services for testing the cooking oil and sharing of techniques. If so, the production of cooking oils will meet the set standard for people to have safe con­sumption of cooking oils.

The Ministry of Industry is ready to provide necessary assistance to oil millers and consumers for the production of cooking oils at modern oil mills with the use of advanced techniques. In purifying the crude oils of groundnut and sesame, the Ministry of Industry will give expert and expertise to small and medium-scale enterprises.

With regard to the production of safe cooking oil, government departments and organizations as well as different non-governmental associations are focusing on their discussions on the plans to seek the technologies to refine crude oils, arrangements to disburse loans to be spent on development tasks, setting standards and norms for products, FDA measures and occupying of market shares. Thanks to their efforts, people will have the chance to consume safe cooking oils sufficiently.

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