Govt targets 17 million tonnes mustard production by 2025-26
The Government plans to carry around 9 million hectares of land less than mustard cultivation and elevate the output 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 reported that the regular standard place for 5 decades from 2014-fifteen to 2018-19 was five.9 million hectares and the output was around 7.7 mt.
Stating that the Government is location an ambitious concentrate on for 2025-26, she reported going by the success in the previous, the place is predicted to improve to around 9 million hectares and output to around seventeen mt.
Looking for shut coordination and cooperation of the business to accomplish this, she reported along with the government assist and farmers’ really hard function this can be created attainable.
For 2021-22, the government is concentrating on an place of 7.58 million hectares with a output of 12.24 mt.
The Government qualified 368 districts in thirteen States past 12 months for mustard cultivation, and it will be continued this 12 months also. All around ₹160 crore was invested on mustard mission past 12 months, she reported.
Rabi time
In the Rabi of 2021, the place included less than mustard was around 7.three million hectares and an improve of around 4 lakh hectares around the Rabi of 2020.
To accomplish the concentrate on for 2025-26, it is remaining planned to present superior top quality seeds to the farmers, and the Government has embarked on a right seed arranging.
The Government has created minute arranging for the next 5 decades, and the locations have been identified. They include things like rice fallow locations, intercropping locations, and non-regular locations. Organizing has also been created about the districts for getting up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.
For the 2022 Rabi time, rice fallow locations have been identified in States these kinds of as Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. This intervention will enable carry additional two lakh hectares less than mustard cultivation, she reported.
On intercropping intervention, she reported it would be performed with the major crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would carry additional 2 lakh hectares of place less than the mustard cultivation.
The government is concentrating on Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-regular locations, she extra.