Govt targets 17 million tonnes mustard production by 2025-26

The Authorities programs to carry around 9 million hectares of land less than mustard cultivation and increase the manufacturing to around seventeen million tonnes (mt) by 2025-26, in accordance to Shubha Thakur, Joint Secretary (Oilseeds), Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

Speaking at a webinar on ‘Mission Mustard 2025’, organised by Solvent Extractors’ Affiliation (SEA) of India on Friday, she stated that the average regular place for five yrs from 2014-15 to 2018-19 was 5.9 million hectares and the manufacturing was around seven.seven mt.

Stating that the Authorities is location an bold goal for 2025-26, she stated heading by the achievement in the previous, the place is anticipated to maximize to around 9 million hectares and manufacturing to around seventeen mt.

Looking for near coordination and cooperation of the market to achieve this, she stated together with the federal government support and farmers’ difficult work this can be produced feasible.

For 2021-22, the federal government is concentrating on an place of seven.fifty eight million hectares with a manufacturing of 12.24 mt.

The Authorities targeted 368 districts in 13 States previous 12 months for mustard cultivation, and it will be ongoing this 12 months also. All-around ₹160 crore was spent on mustard mission previous 12 months, she stated.

Rabi period

In the Rabi of 2021, the place covered less than mustard was around seven.three million hectares and an maximize of around four lakh hectares in excess of the Rabi of 2020.

To achieve the goal for 2025-26, it is getting planned to offer superior high-quality seeds to the farmers, and the Authorities has embarked upon a good seed organizing.

The Authorities has produced minute organizing for the up coming five yrs, and the locations have been recognized. They include rice fallow locations, intercropping locations, and non-regular locations. Organizing has also been produced about the districts for taking up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.

For the 2022 Rabi period, rice fallow locations have been recognized in States these as Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. This intervention will help carry extra two lakh hectares less than mustard cultivation, she stated.

On intercropping intervention, she stated it would be finished with the major crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would carry extra 2 lakh hectares of place less than the mustard cultivation.

The federal government is concentrating on Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-regular locations, she included.