At present, the country has around 6.16 lakh acres of salt producing land.  The Central Government owns about 60,586 acres of salt pan lands out of which 50,488 acres of land are under salt production in various salt producing States of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.  

                        Rajasthan is the third largest salt producing State in the Country after Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.  Out of the total of 268.87 lakh ton of salt produced in the country in 2014-15, the total salt produced in Rajasthan is 21.58 lakh ton.

                        The production of salt in Rajasthan including in Barmer district during the last three years i.e. 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-5 is as follows:

In lakh ton

                        Currently, the Government does not have any proposal under consideration to promote the salt production in saline areas of Thar region including Pachpadra.

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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