The Government strategies to carry all-around 9 million hectares of land underneath mustard cultivation and elevate 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 mentioned that the average usual place for five many years from 2014-fifteen to 2018-19 was five.9 million hectares and the manufacturing was all-around seven.seven mt.
Stating that the Government is environment an bold focus on for 2025-26, she mentioned likely by the success in the earlier, the place is expected to increase to all-around 9 million hectares and manufacturing to all-around 17 mt.
Trying to get shut coordination and cooperation of the marketplace to reach this, she mentioned together with the authorities assist and farmers’ tough perform this can be manufactured achievable.
For 2021-22, the authorities is targeting an place of seven.fifty eight million hectares with a manufacturing of twelve.24 mt.
The Government targeted 368 districts in 13 States very last 12 months for mustard cultivation, and it will be continued this 12 months also. About ₹160 crore was spent on mustard mission very last 12 months, she mentioned.
Rabi time
In the Rabi of 2021, the place lined underneath mustard was all-around seven.three million hectares and an increase of all-around four lakh hectares about the Rabi of 2020.
To reach the focus on for 2025-26, it is staying prepared to give higher high-quality seeds to the farmers, and the Government has embarked on a good seed scheduling.
The Government has manufactured moment scheduling for the upcoming five many years, and the regions have been discovered. They incorporate rice fallow regions, intercropping regions, and non-classic regions. Arranging has also been manufactured about the districts for getting up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.
For the 2022 Rabi time, rice fallow regions have been discovered 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 enable carry added two lakh hectares underneath mustard cultivation, she mentioned.
On intercropping intervention, she mentioned it would be done with the key crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would carry added two lakh hectares of place underneath the mustard cultivation.
The authorities is targeting Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-classic regions, she additional.
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