Oilseed Research Centre (ORC) is one of the important Centre of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute. At present, it has been conducting research work on nine oilseed crops like rapeseed-mustard, groundnut, sesame, soybean, sunflower, linseed, niger, safflower and perilla of which the first five are considered as major. As per DAE estimate, 11.99 lakh metric ton oilseeds was produced from 8.54 lakh hectare in 2020-21. As per estimation, local production of edible oil meets only 12% of the quantity being consumed. The rest 88% is being imported spending a huge amount of foreign currency. Our need of edible oil is around 24 lakh metric ton but local production is only 3 lakh metric ton because edible oil is being extracted only from rapeseed-mustard, sunflower and sesame. The government has given special attention to increase oilseed production. The government along with research organizations, DAE and BADC are going to implement a three years plan to reduce 40% pendency on import of edible oil. ORC of BARI has already developed 51 varieties of different oilseed corps having  higher  yield,  short  duration,  dwarf  type and  stress  tolerant  and  their  production technologies. Some of them have already been popularized as mega variety.