In the world market, cottonseed production and processing ranks second (17.3% of world oilseed production) among the five major oilseeds, which include soybean seed, cottonseed, sunflower seed, peanut seed, and rapeseed.  The USA, USSR. People's Republic of China, India, and Pakistan produce approximately 75.3% of the 27.8 Mt of the world cottonseed supply.  Cottonseed is processed into four major products - oil, meal, hulls, and linters.  Cottonseed yields approximately 16% crude oil, 45% meal, 9% linters, and 26% hulls, with losses of 4% due to handling and processing.  World production of oil and meal (44% protein) for 1981/1982, the USA was expected to process 0.9 and 9.1 Mt of oil and meal, respectively.