Bathinda farmers eye high oilseed profit flow, set up producers' body

Some 300-odd farmers from Sangat block in Bathinda district have formed a farmers producers' organisation (FPO) to present a model to boost oilseed cultivation and make crop diversification a sustainable effort at the micro level.

- Vishal Joshi

BATHINDA:

Funded by the central government, experts at the krishi vigyan kendra (KVK) are mentoring the project members under which the FPO has started selling mustard oil derived from its oil extraction unit. The processing plant is situated at the KVK complex in Bathinda city.

It took two years for the KVK to make the FPO operational as farmers were initially hesitant to venture into it.

President of the Sangat Block Cooperative Limited Harpreet Singh from Sekhku village said they bought 50 quintals of black mustard seeds from the adjoining Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan in 2024 for a hands-on experience in marketing quality oil.