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27/09/23 06:36 AM IST

National Conference for Rabi Campaign 2023-24

In News
  • The Union government recently held an interaction with the States on the preparedness for the upcoming rabi crop season in the background of a 5% decrease in monsoon in this year.
About the conference
  • The objective of this conference is to review and assess the crop performance during the preceding crop seasons and fix crop-wise targets for rabi season in consultation with State Governments, ensure supply of critical inputs and facilitate adoption of innovative technologies with a view to enhance production and productivity of the crops.
  • The priority of government is agro-ecological based crop planning for diversion of land from excess commodities like rice and wheat to deficit commodities like oilseeds and pulses and high value export earning crops.
  • 1st National Conference of Chief Secretaries at Dharmshala under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister has set the agenda for crop diversification and self sufficiency in pulses and oilseeds in consultation with states.
  • This conference will take the agenda towards logical conclusion.
  • National targets for total food grains production has been set at 3320 lakh tonnes for the year 2023-24, rabi season will contribute 1612 lakh tonnes out of this.
  • Similarly share of rabi crops will be 181 out of 292 lakh tonnes for pulses and 145 out of 440 lakh tonnes for oilseeds.
  • The strategy would be to increase area through inter-cropping and crop diversification and productivity enhancement through introduction of HYVs and adoption of suitable agronomic practices in low yielding regions.
  • Mustard production has jumped by 37% from 91.24 to 124.94 lakh tonnes in last 3 years.
  • The productivity saw 7% jump from 1331 to 1419 kg/ha. The area under rapeseed & mustard increased by 28% from 68.56 in 2019-20 to 88.06 lakh ha in 2022-23.
Recommendations
  • The conference raised concern at large yield gaps in crop production with farmers practice compared to improved technologies.
  • For pulses, it is proposed to achieve the target of 325.47 lakh tonnes by 2025.
  • Special projects like inter-cropping, targeting rice fallows, expansion in high potential districts and non-conventional regions will bring additional area under oilseeds.
  • All this will increase domestic production of annual edible oilseedsfrom current level of 362 to 541 lakh tonnes and edible oilproductionfrom 85 to 136 lakh tonnes by the end of 2025-26.
  • The renewed focus will help in reducing the import dependency from 56% to 36% in next 5 years.
Source- PIB

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