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According to Indian media reports, the Modi government of India may formally propose to change the country’s name from “India” to “Bharat” (Bharat) at the parliamentary session held from September 18 to 22. The two names "India" and "Bharat" are official names specified in the Indian Constitution. In the view of Hindu nationalists, the word "Bharat" can highlight the long history of Indian civilization, especially Hinduism, while the word "India" was proposed by the British colonial authorities at the time and was a "symbol of the slavery system." Obviously, compared to "India", "Bharata" has a clear Hindu color. Compared with "India" in the international world, in India, the word "Bharat" appears in passports, banknotes, organization names, etc., and has a broad public base.
India is the world's second most populous country and one of the BRICS countries. India's economic industry is diversified, covering agriculture, handicrafts, textiles and even service industries. Two-thirds of India's population still relies directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihood. In recent years, the service industry has grown rapidly and has become the world's most important exporter of software, finance and other service industries. It is the world's largest exporter of generic drugs and ranks first in the world in remittances. India is a developing country with an extremely uneven distribution of social wealth, and the caste system problem is more acute.
India is a country that is mainly vegetarian. Since independence, it has now become one of the world's major oil producers. However, even though it is one of the major oil producers, it still needs to import a large amount of oil crops to meet the needs of population growth. These include palm oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil, and Indians mainly use these three oils for cooking. Palm oil currently accounts for about 40% of edible oil consumption in India. India relies almost entirely on imports of palm oil. The country has now become the world's largest importer of palm oil. India mainly imports crude palm oil, which is then refined domestically, and refined palm oil accounts for about 30% of total imports.
Faced with pressure from rapeseed growers and the evolution of the edible oil market, the Indian government has introduced new policies to restrict the import of palm oil. And India has a plan to develop its own palm industry. In addition, reducing the import of palm oil is also in line with India's need to develop its own palm oil industry. The authorities will actively promote the planting of palm trees starting in 2021. The goal is to increase the planting scale to 1 million hectares within five years.
The term "palm oil" covers much of what we get from a tropical palm called the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). "Crude palm oil" is obtained from the fleshy red fruit of the oil palm by pressing it, while "palm kernel oil" is extracted by crushing the fruit's hard seeds. Ultimately, we obtain many "palm oil derivatives" through industrial processes, and these derivatives account for about 60% of global palm oil usage.
Palm fruit oil pressing process:
First, the palm fruit undergoes high-temperature cooking and sterilization, mechanical fruit removal, pounding and crushing, and mechanical pressing to successfully extract oil from the palm pulp. Then, the extracted oil enters the oil clarification device and vacuum drying system to remove impurities and moisture to obtain crude palm oil (CPO) and palm meal (PE); finally, after the above-mentioned primary stage of extraction, crude palm oil and crude palm The kernel oil is sent to the refining workshop for refining to remove free fatty acids, natural pigments, and odors, and becomes salad-grade refined palm oil (RBD PO). Refined palm oil is nearly colorless and transparent in the liquid state and nearly white in the solid state.
Palm kernel pressing process:
Palm kernel and fiber mixture → fiber and kernel separation → kernel shell separation → crushing → steaming and frying → pressing → filtering → palm kernel oil
