Oilseeds

However, a record soyabean crop in the US and falling oilseeds and cooking oil prices in the global market resulted in domestic oilseeds prices crashing and the resultant hike in duty.

In 1987 during his tenure as advisor to Rajiv Gandhi, Pitroda headed six Technology Missions related to Telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy, and oilseeds.

Some farmers have already reported crop losses as high as 80%, with cereals and oilseeds among those affected, farming groups have said.

BRICS countries are “among the world’s largest producers of grain, vegetables, and oilseeds,” he noted.

Gujarat has been a leading producer of groundnut - a key kharif oilseeds crop - accounting for 40 per cent of India’s groundnut production.

He said inspired by Modi’s vision of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, this budget has encouraged ‘aatmanirbharta’ in oilseeds on one hand, while on the other hand, focus has been laid on development of dairy sector and use of Nano-DAP.

The same alacrity hasn’t been seen in wheat, rice and sugar тАФ perhaps because the growers of these crops are politically more organised than pulses or oilseeds farmers.

We have added almost 100,000 oilseeds of rapeseed, and also we have cropped 5 million tonnes of sugar beet and provided our population with fruit and vegetable products,” he said.

Crops such as cotton, oilseeds, maize and pulses have shown a remarkable increase in planted area for this time of the year, as can be seen from the adjoining data.

It will be established in three years at Challakere, a shrubby, arid oilseeds town on the Bengaluru-Pune NH4 in Chitradurga district of Karnataka.

The edible oil body has also suggested the Centre to exempt oilseeds crushing and processing units from procuring raw material from the APMCs (mandis) and allow purchase directly from farmers.

It would expose some produce – specifically cereals, oilseeds, potatoes, eggs and horticultural produce – to a tariff going into the EU, but would allow that same product to come into the UK with no tariff.

The development comes at a time when the High Powered Committee of Chief Ministers, constituted for transformation for Indian agriculture by the BJP government, has been looking at various technologies, including GM, for increasing yield of oilseeds.

Traditionally, farmers in South Karnataka used to grow field crops such as coconut, millets, pulses and oilseeds.

Also, there is only token procurement in pulses and oilseeds because the prices the farmer has sown for are much higher.

China buys large quantities of grains and oilseeds here plus dairy products and processed pork.

Also, very few cash crops are grown in Chhattisgarh, so there is a need to diversify the agriculture produce towards oilseeds and other cash crops.

Edible protein sources that may be used include food grade flours or meals from nonwheat cereals or oilseeds.

In the beginning of 2014, oilseeds exports have been more important.

Land sales to foreigners stimulated increased agricultural processing in the early twentieth century, including meat packing and the processing of flour, oilseeds, sugar, beer, and pectin extract.