The Tamil Nadu Agriculture University has announced the price forecast for good quality black and green grams, after analyzing the prices in the last 20 years at the Villupuram Regulated Market.
Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Agricultura University has announced the price forecast for good quality black and green gram, after analyzing the prices in the last 20 years at the Villupuram Regulated Market.
The TN-IAM Project funded the Price Forecasting Scheme of the Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies. The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University analyzed the past 20 years' prices for black gram and green gram that prevailed at Villupuram Regulated Market.
As per the results of the analysis, the farm gate price of good quality black gram is expected to fetch Rs.65-67 per kg. Good quality green gram farm gate price will be around Rs.63-65 per kg and fluctuation in cost would be subjected to the variations in the arrivals from the major production centres and imports from other countries.
The harvest season for the pulses has begun especially in the rice fallow areas. And the farmers were advised to take appropriate selling decisions accordingly.
India is the largest producer, consumer and also the largest importer of pulses in the world. As per the First Advance Estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, total pulses production in India was 26.96 million tonnes in 2021-22. The total pulse production of the country is reached 23.02 million tonnes during 2019-20. Black gram and green gram accounted for 16.93 and 10.04 percent respectively in the total pulses production of India during 2019-20.
Blackgram:
According to the First Advance Estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (2021-22), the production of black grams is 2.66 Million tonnes in India. The major states producing black gram are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra accounting for 89 percent of the total black gram of the country. The major consuming importing countries of a black gram are India, China, Pakistan, Japan, and Thailand. These countries import mainly from countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Canada, and Australia.
Black gram is normally cultivated in Tamil Nadu in an area of 4.05 lakh hectares with a production of 3.17 lakh tonnes. Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Viluppuram, Thanjavur and Tiruvarur are the major districts cultivating blackgram. Major cultivars are ADT 3, ADT 4, ADT 5, KKM1, CO 6, VBN (Bg) 5, and VBN Blackgram arrivals from Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have already started and it is expected that arrivals from Tamil Nadu will commence from March first week. Trade sources also stated that black gram imports from Myanmar will also affect the domestic prices of black gram.
Greengram:
According to the First Advance Estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (2021-22), the production of Greengram is 3.06 Million tonnes in India. The major green gram-producing states are Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. These states together contribute to 79 percent of total green gram production. Countries importing green gram are Myanmar, China, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Indonesia.
Greengram is annually cultivated in Tamil Nadu in an area of 1.71 lakh hectares with a production of 0.76 lakh tonnes. Greengram is cultivated in Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Thoothukudi, Cuddalore, Thiruvallur, Salem, and Thanjavur. Major varieties under cultivation in the state are CO 6, CO 7, CO 8, and VBN 3.
The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) is the nodal agency for the procurement of these pulses. Procurement has already begun on February 1 in the districts of Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar, and Tiruvallur, all for green gram, and Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Pudukottai, Ariyalur, Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Villupuram, and Tirupur besides Thoothukudi, all for black gram.