Feb 12 (Reuters) - India's palm oil imports in January fell about 12.4% from the previous month to 782,983 metric tons, a trade body said on Monday.

Imports of soyoil rose 23.7% to 188,859 tons, those of sunflower oil were down about 15.6% at 220,079 tons, while total vegetable oil imports fell 8.4% to 1.20 million tons, the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said in a statement. (Reporting by Harshit Verma and Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)