Govt targets 17 million tonnes mustard production by 2025-26
The Government plans to provide around nine million hectares of land below mustard cultivation and raise the production to around seventeen million tonnes (mt) by 2025-26, according 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 mentioned that the average typical space for 5 several years from 2014-15 to 2018-19 was 5.nine million hectares and the production was around 7.7 mt.
Stating that the Government is location an bold focus on for 2025-26, she mentioned heading by the achievements in the past, the space is anticipated to enhance to around nine million hectares and production to around seventeen mt.
Looking for close coordination and cooperation of the industry to realize this, she mentioned along with the authorities assist and farmers’ really hard work this can be built doable.
For 2021-22, the authorities is concentrating on an space of 7.fifty eight million hectares with a production of twelve.24 mt.
The Government specific 368 districts in 13 States previous yr for mustard cultivation, and it will be continued this yr also. All around ₹160 crore was invested on mustard mission previous yr, she mentioned.
Rabi year
In the Rabi of 2021, the space coated below mustard was around 7.3 million hectares and an enhance of around four lakh hectares in excess of the Rabi of 2020.
To realize the focus on for 2025-26, it is staying prepared to present higher high-quality seeds to the farmers, and the Government has embarked on a proper seed arranging.
The Government has built moment arranging for the upcoming 5 several years, and the areas have been discovered. They contain rice fallow areas, intercropping areas, and non-traditional areas. Planning has also been built about the districts for having up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.
For the 2022 Rabi year, rice fallow areas have been discovered 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 aid provide supplemental two lakh hectares below mustard cultivation, she mentioned.
On intercropping intervention, she mentioned it would be completed with the key crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would provide supplemental two lakh hectares of space below the mustard cultivation.
The authorities is concentrating on Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-traditional areas, she included.
