Cooking oil seeds clusters to be set up in Virudhunagar district
The Agriculture Department in India's Virudhunagar district is launching a new initiative to boost cooking oil seed production. The plan includes establishing value-addition clusters and demonstration plots for groundnut and sunflower crops.
Why it matters
This initiative aims to improve local agricultural yields and economic output through modern farming technologies.
Department of Agriculture has planned to increase the production of cooking oil seeds through the National Cooking Oil Mission by setting up value-addition clusters and demonstration plots in Virudhunagar district.
In a statement, Virudhunagar Collector N.O. Sukhaputra, said that the groundnut cluster and demonstration plot would be set up in Kariyapatti, M. Reddiyapatti, Narikudi, Watrap, Virudhunagar and Aruppukottai blocks.
The groundnut cluster would be established on 1,000 hectares of farmland, and the farmers would be given new groundnut varieties within seven years. New technologies for higher yields would be implemented to increase production, the statement said.
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