Mustard Oil Benefits: The crops of Kharif season have started being cut and sold. Farmers have started sowing Rabi crops in the fields. The kharif crops of the farmers were badly damaged due to floods, rains and drought. Farmers are still not able to recover from it. Now there should be no loss in rabi crops. That’s why sowing of rabi season crops has been started on time. Farmers are also checking which crop is more profitable to sow. Sowing more of the same. The area under oilseed crops has increased in the Haryana region itself.
Mustard area increased to 2770 hectares in Haryana
Good news has come out about the production of oilseed crops from Ambala district of Haryana. According to media reports, oilseed crops have expanded rapidly in this district. This year alone, the area under mustard cultivation has increased to 5160 hectares, while it was 2390 hectares in the Rabi season of 2020-21. In this way the area has increased by 2770 hectares as compared to last year. Experts say that farmers had suffered losses in mustard crops earlier. In such a situation, this time due to more sowing of mustard, more profit can be obtained.
This was the situation till mid November
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Mustard has been sown in about 4400 hectares and rapeseed in about 3500 hectares in Ambala district by the middle of November. Now the last week of November is going on. This figure of sowing has increased rapidly in the last few days. Farmers say that last year the production of mustard had decreased in the same season. The farmers could not even recover their cost. This time the expectations are high.
That’s why farmers are sowing more
Farmers are earning well from mustard production. Farmers of Haryana say that black and yellow mustard seeds get good prices. In the last season also, oilseed crops were sold at more than the MSP. The area has increased this year. It is expected that the crop being sown this year will give a good yield to the farmers. With the increase in the income of the farmers, its area will gradually increase in the coming years. Officials of the Agriculture Department say that the cost of mustard is very less as compared to wheat. Due to this, farmers prefer to sow more mustard. At the same time, other crops can also be sown after harvesting. It is a matter of happiness that the area under mustard has increased in the state.
Disclaimer: Some of the information given in the news is based on media reports. Farmer brothers, before implementing any suggestion, do consult the concerned expert.