Field Guides to Food

Mustard Oil Yield

Mustard is considered a cash crop in Nepal and since people use mustard oil for cooking, especially vegetable for home purposes people grow local mustard rather than hybrid as hybrid has lower oil yield. However when farmers want to grow mustard to sell. The price that farmers get for either of the mustard when they sell is about the same.
The selling price for mustard is not dependent on the purity between in the local seeds and the hybrid seed. However a lot of mixing between the two dampen the price of mustard. Most people in the village still prefer growing the local mustard variety.

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