• How is the cooking oil market segmented in Vietnam?
  • The market is also segmented on the basis of use, consisting of four categories: cooking oil for frying and saut¨¦ing, specialized salad oil for mixing vegetables, nutritional oil to supplement essential vitamins and solid oil for baking. However, in Vietnam, the segmentation of the cooking oil market based on the functions of oil is not clear.
  • What is sesame oil?
  • 1. Introduction Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is one of the oldest cultivated oilseed crops, known for its resilient growth in arid conditions and highly valued seeds for their oil and nutritional content.
  • How many cooking oil companies are there in Vietnam?
  • Currently, there are about 40 cooking oil companies in Vietnam. Regarding the origin of oil, there exist domestically produced cooking oils and imported cooking oils from Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In addition, cooking oil is also classified based on ingredients such as soybean oil, sesame oil, peanut oil or palm oil.
  • Why does Vietnamese cooking oil market have a weak purchasing power?
  • Moreover, consumers still do not fully understand the difference among types of vegetable oils, which leads to weak purchasing power for nutritious, salad and solid oils such as canola oil, olive oil and gac oil. The Vietnamese cooking oil market is witnessing a fierce competition due to the arrival of foreign cooking oil brands.
  • How to improve sesame seed yield?
  • Key traits such as early flowering, plant height, fruiting zone length, number of primary branches, capsule length, 1000-seed weight, shatter-resistant capsules, seed weight per plant, and seed oil content play an important role in improving sesame seed yield (Zhou et al., 2018; Baraki et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2024).
  • Can genetic engineering improve oil content and seed yield in sesame plants?
  • Genetic engineering techniques have been used to enhance the oil content and seed yield in sesame plants by targeting essential enzymes involved in oil synthesis, including diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), phospholipid diacylglycerol acyltransferases (PDAT), fatty acid desaturases (FAD), and cytochrome b 5 (Muthulakshmi et al., 2021).