The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (Horticulture & Sericulture), Government of Telangana, has allotted 47,000 acres of land to Godrej Agrovet (GAVL) for setting up oil palm units in Sangareddy district of the state.
GAVL will utilise this land to expand its oil palm cultivation, and would further contribute towards reducing India's dependency on oil palm imports in the coming years.
Recently, GAVL inaugurated an edible oil refinery at Chintalapudi in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh, and as the first downstream project, it will cater to the internal requirements of oil palm works in the southern states, as well as other crude palm oil players in the region.