SEA said that it had carried out a crop survey earlier this month.
One of the initiatives of SEA is the “Model Mustard Farm Project” which aims to India’s Rapeseed-Mustard production to 200 Lakh tones by 2025-26.
SEA claimed that the project has started showing positive results, as reflected in our recent crop
survey for 2022-23 crop year.
SEA had roped in RMSI Cropanalytics Pt Ltd for the survey through two rounds of extensive crop surveys, remote sensing analysis for highest level of accuracy in crop area estimation.
Total nine states including Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal were surveyed. “Based on the primary survey of nine major states and secondary survey of rest of the states, India’s rapeseed-mustard acreage for 2022-23 is estimated at 95.77 lakh hectares, which is lower than the Ministry of Agriculture’s estimate of 98.02 lakh hectares,” said SEA.
The average productivity for the year 2022-23 has been estimated at 1,203kg/ha, leading to the total mustard production at 115.25 lakh tonnes. The SEA had estimated the crop at 110 lakh tonnes in the previous year.
In the Second Advance Estimate dated Feb 14, the Ministry of Agriculture has estimated the crop at 128.18 lakh tonnes compared with 119.63 lakh tonnes in 2021-22.
Production in Rajasthan is estimated at 44.95 lakh tonnes, followed by Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh at 18.03 lakh tones and 16.69 lakh tones, respectively.