AICRP on Oilseeds : Salient Research Achievements on Crop Nutrition Requirement and Soil Health Management

摘要

India attained self-sufficiency in food grain production after Green Revolution and the next challenge before the Government of India was to reduce dependence on import of oilseeds for meeting the domestic demand.Technology Mission on Oilseeds(TMO)which created favourable conditions could harness the best production,processing and storage technologies supported by appropriate policy support and through the multi-disciplinary research approach of All India Coordinated Research Programme on Oilseeds(AICRPO),it became possible to identify various production constraints and once again India became net foreign exchange earner in oilseeds sector during 1989-90 leading to Yellow Revolution.Edible oil consumption is both income and price elastic and the projected per capita consumption by next year i.e.,2020 AD is 16.8 kg for which the projected indigenous oilseed production target is 60.6 Mt,really challenging indeed.The additional production and profitability from oilseeds must come primarily from increase in crop productivity with efficient resource use(by discouraging unbalanced nutrient application,excessive use of only urea/DAR residue burning,mono cropping,conventional tillage etc.,)which would reduce the cost of production and ensure the environmental safety.There is a need to make integrated use of different sources of nutrients for enhancing and sustaining oilseeds’productivity and improving or aggrading the soil health.