COOIT sees 2021-22 mustard output at file one hundred ten lakh tonnes

COOIT sees 2021-22 mustard output at file one hundred ten lakh tonnes

by admin- Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 07:54:53 AM

Sowing of mustard seeds has expanded notably this 12 months in all fundamental producing States which include Rajasthan
As farmers are bringing greater vicinity below mustard cultivation within the ongoing rabi cropping season, trade frame Central Organization for Oil Industry and Trade (COOIT) has anticipated the manufacturing of the oilseed to growth to a record one hundred-110 lakh tonnes in 2021-22 crop yr.

The manufacturing of mustard stood at eighty five lakh tonnes in the 2020-21 crop 12 months (July-June), COOIT stated. However, the government’s fourth enhance estimates had pegged the 2020-21 crop at a hundred and one.12 lakh tonnes. “Sowing of mustard seeds has expanded extensively this yr in all primary generating States which include Rajasthan. We project that production may additionally rise to 100-one hundred ten lakh tonnes in 2021-22 season,” said COOIT President Babulal Data, said in a announcement.

As per Agriculture Ministry’s statistics, rapeseed and mustard acreage stood at eighty one.Sixty six lakh hectare till December 10, 2021, of the ongoing rabi sowing season as in opposition to 65.97 lakh hectares within the corresponding period final yr. “Farmers got proper costs for his or her mustard crop inside the closing rabi season. As a end result, they have positioned greater location under mustard within the ongoing rabi season,” he said. Conducive climate, to this point, are also visible helping the mustard crop.

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