Neem oil and cake.
Dear sir!
Everyone in this country knows that there are plants preferabley batch type solvent plants process neem fruits/pulp during a season say between June to mid Oct.
People here have tempted to buy 100-1000Mts of oil which means a certain requirement of 1200-12000Mts of Neem fruits which is nothing but a dream.
We know the best processors in Karnataka struggling to procure and process this un organised material commercially since many years.
As a matter of fact, we have burnt our fingers last year when we procured some quantity of Neem fruits which hardly ever pure in terms of oil content or the most worried sandsilica and moisture factor.
People here will agree with me that there can not be such a big avaialbility say 100Mts of oil though a small solvent plant with a expeller hardly could operate 30to 60 working days in a season.
This year the crop itself is very small in the market and there is no question of dreaming for >30Mts of oil at a single place be it Lattur or elsewhere.
The Price of the expeller cake itself is presently <Rs8/kg here in some parts of Karnataka say Hiriyur.
The oil price is <Rs45/kg.
Bhadrinath.