It has also projected a lower kharif crop of castorseed from 9.2 lakh tonnes to 8.7 lakh tonnes. In case of solvent extracted oils, ricebran oil production estimate is reduced by 50,000 tonnes to 450,000 tonnes and similarly solvent extracted rapeseed oil is reduced from 90,000 tonnes to 50,000 tonnes. In effect, the overall oil availability is revised downward by 2.7 lakh tonnes to 71 lakh tonnes from the earlier estimate of 73.7 lakh tonnes. However, the production estimates of other major oilseeds like copra, groundnut, cottonseed, soyabean, salseed and sesameseed have beenretained at the earlier levels. After the revised estimates the total oilseeds and oils availability compared to previous year (1997-98) has increased by 8 per cent and 4 per cent respectively at 282 lakh tonnes and 71 lakh.