March 29, 2024

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Govt targets 17 million tonnes mustard production by 2025-26

The Government plans to convey all-around nine million hectares of land beneath mustard cultivation and increase the manufacturing to all-around 17 million tonnes (mt) by 2025-26, in accordance to Shubha Thakur, Joint Secretary (Oilseeds), Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

Talking at a webinar on ‘Mission Mustard 2025’, organised by Solvent Extractors’ Affiliation (SEA) of India on Friday, she reported that the regular standard area for five years from 2014-fifteen to 2018-19 was 5.9 million hectares and the manufacturing was all-around 7.7 mt.

Stating that the Government is setting an bold target for 2025-26, she reported likely by the success in the past, the area is expected to enhance to all-around nine million hectares and manufacturing to all-around 17 mt.

In search of near coordination and cooperation of the industry to reach this, she reported alongside with the governing administration aid and farmers’ tricky get the job done this can be built feasible.

For 2021-22, the governing administration is concentrating on an area of 7.58 million hectares with a manufacturing of twelve.24 mt.

The Government qualified 368 districts in thirteen States past year for mustard cultivation, and it will be continued this year also. Around ₹160 crore was expended on mustard mission past year, she reported.

Rabi period

In the Rabi of 2021, the area covered beneath mustard was all-around 7.three million hectares and an enhance of all-around 4 lakh hectares about the Rabi of 2020.

To reach the target for 2025-26, it is currently being planned to offer high top quality seeds to the farmers, and the Government has embarked on a good seed organizing.

The Government has built minute organizing for the future five years, and the regions have been recognized. They consist of rice fallow regions, intercropping regions, and non-classic regions. Organizing has also been built about the districts for using up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.

For the 2022 Rabi period, rice fallow regions have been recognized in States this sort of as Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. This intervention will help convey more two lakh hectares beneath mustard cultivation, she reported.

On intercropping intervention, she reported it would be accomplished with the big crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would convey more 2 lakh hectares of area beneath the mustard cultivation.

The governing administration is concentrating on Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-classic regions, she extra.