Pakistan’s marketing year (MY) 2014/15 (October/September) vegetable oil imports are forecast to be a record 2.66 million metric tons (MMT), 6.5 percent higher than MY 2013/14. MY 2014/15 imports of soybean meal are projected at a record 800,000 tons, up 23 percent from this year’s estimates. Oilseed production in MY 2014/15 is forecast at 5.3 MMT, up eight percent from the MY 2013/14 estimates.Pakistan’s cottonseed production in MY 2013/14 is projected at 4.48 MMT, up twelve percent over the previous year’s production. Imports of oilseeds are forecast at one million tons, down seven percent from last year’s import level of 1.08 million metric tons.
