India's June vegoil imports down 22.4 percent on year: trade body

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's vegetable oil imports fell 22.4 percent to 1.04 million tonnes in June against the same month a year earlier, a leading trade body said on Monday.

Imports during the first eight months of the current year beginning November fell to 9.65 million tonnes against 9.87 million tonnes a year earlier, the Solvent Extractors Association of India said in a statement.

(Reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj and Sudarshan Varadhan; Editing by Sunil Nair)