Can India's oilseeds be solved with widespread use of Nano sulfur in the journey of India's oilseeds self -sufficiency? Terry scientists claim that this is possible. Terry scientists claim that their developed nano sulfur (regular) using mustard yield increases from 1,156 kg per hectare to 30-40 percent to 1,559 kg per hectare (about 3.7 tonnes per hectare) and increases the amount of oil to 28–30 percent. So far, the average yield per hectare has increased by 10 to 40 percent per hectare at various test sites of genetic form revised mustard DMH -11.
The report states that the existing varieties of mustard give average 1-1.8 percent per hectare. According to Pushpalata Singh, Assistant Director of Commercial Production in Terry, “Our research has reported that the Nano sulfur (non-genetically modified) varieties gives an increase like DMH-11 in a position to use on varieties.”
Mustard was selected to check the efficiency of Nano sulfur. The reason for this was that when the sulfur is present in the soil, it helps in achieving high yield of mustard and the amount of oil in the crop is high. Singh said, “To improve the amount of oil in mustard, a high amount of sulfur is required.”
According to Terry's study, using nano sulfur on mustard crop leads to an increase in the height of the plant, branches, chlorophyll volume, biological yield. Its use replaces 50 percent of traditional sulfur manure and this can lead to additional income of up to Rs 12,000 per acre. Singh, who led the research of Nano chemicals in Terry, said that in the Rabi session 2023-24 in Gurugram, Haryana, two varieties of mustard (Brassica Junkia) were tested to study bio-efficacy on two varieties of India.
First Published – April 22, 2025 | 10:49 PM IST
