Govt targets 17 million tonnes mustard production by 2025-26
The Authorities programs to bring about 9 million hectares of land less than mustard cultivation and raise the output to about 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’ Association (SEA) of India on Friday, she stated that the regular ordinary area for 5 many years from 2014-15 to 2018-19 was five.9 million hectares and the output was about seven.seven mt.
Stating that the Authorities is environment an formidable goal for 2025-26, she stated likely by the good results in the past, the area is predicted to enhance to about 9 million hectares and output to about seventeen mt.
Looking for close coordination and cooperation of the sector to accomplish this, she stated along with the federal government assistance and farmers’ really hard operate this can be designed probable.
For 2021-22, the federal government is targeting an area of seven.58 million hectares with a output of 12.24 mt.
The Authorities focused 368 districts in 13 States past yr for mustard cultivation, and it will be ongoing this yr also. About ₹160 crore was spent on mustard mission past yr, she stated.
Rabi time
In the Rabi of 2021, the area covered less than mustard was about seven.three million hectares and an enhance of about 4 lakh hectares around the Rabi of 2020.
To accomplish the goal for 2025-26, it is staying planned to supply large quality seeds to the farmers, and the Authorities has embarked on a proper seed setting up.
The Authorities has designed moment setting up for the upcoming 5 many years, and the regions have been recognized. They include rice fallow regions, intercropping regions, and non-common regions. Organizing has also been designed about the districts for using up mustard cultivation and the seeds availability.
For the 2022 Rabi time, rice fallow regions have been recognized 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 aid bring further two lakh hectares less than mustard cultivation, she stated.
On intercropping intervention, she stated it would be done with the main crops in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra, and this intervention would bring further two lakh hectares of area less than the mustard cultivation.
The federal government is targeting Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala for non-common regions, she additional.
