Farmers in India are sowing more sesame and groundnut seeds as cooking oil prices continue to increase

게시됨 2022년 5월 2일

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Summer sowing area for farmers has seen a 25% increase, reaching 11.18 lakh hectares, with a notable rise in the cultivation of sesame and groundnut. Sesame planting has more than doubled from the previous year, occupying the second largest cultivated area after pearl millet, while groundnut sowing has also grown by 23%. Other oilseed crops are also under cultivation, and the government is imposing stock limits on pulses to control prices. Fodder and vegetables round out the sowing activities in various districts of Gujarar, India.

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Farmers have also expanded the acreage of groundnut, some other oilseed crops cultivated throughout the summer, according to a media report. With all of this, the total summer sowing area now amounts to 11.18 lakh hectares, up approximately 25% over the previous three years' average. According to data, farmers have so far sown sesame on 1.07 lakh hectares, an increase of roughly 85% above last year's record sowing area of 58,291 hectares. According to the information released by the State's agriculture department, it is marginally higher than last year's equivalent estimate of 97,799 hectares and has appeared as the second most cultivated area after pearl millet this summer. Furthermore, farmers in Saurashtra planted sesame in the largest planting area of the crop. Sesamum sowing has been reported on 2,400 hectares in south Gujarat districts, 1700 hectares in north Gujarat, 1200 hectares in central Gujarat, and 1100 hectares in Kutch. MoFCA has imposed stock limits on pulses to ...

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