Karnataka area under maize up 41 per cent in early kharif sowing
Maize (corn) acreage has jumped forty one per cent Karnataka, the most significant producer of the corase cereal, throughout the recent kharif time as farmers are noticed bringing in much more location under the coarse cereal crop. This arrives even as kharif sowing has taken area on 28.seventeen lakh hectares (lh) of the targeted seventy seven lh in the Condition, as of June twenty five.
Maize sowing has been competled in seven.forty seven lakh ha till June twenty five, forty one per cent increased than corresponding 5.30 lh a yr ago. The target location for maize this kharif in the Condition is eleven.eighty four lh and sowing has been total in about 63 per cent of the targeted location. Maize planting is total in six.31 lh of the targeted rainfed location of eight.72 lh. In irrigated situations, maize sowing has taken area in 1.16 lh of the targeted 3.12 lh.
Good rainfall
Good pre-monsoon showers and very well dispersed monsoon rainfall, so much, has aided the kharif sowing in the Condition. Rainfall throughout June was 31 per cent increased at 405 mm against the regular of 310 mm for the month. Important maize increasing areas of Davangere and Chitradurga districts in south interior Karnataka have gained eighty one and forty five per cent much more rainfall than regular throughout June.
Formal sources said the development of the Kharif sowing has been great so much. Total acreages are increased by about eight per cent about the exact same time period previous yr.
Enhanced pulses location
Among other crops, oilseeds and pulses location have enhanced marginally compared with previous yr. Pulses have been sown on seven.33 lh compared with seven.30 lh in exact same time period previous yr. Target location for pulses is 21.07 lh, of which tur acreage is targeted at fourteen.31 lh. Tur has so much been planted in 3.31 lh, marginally decrease than previous year’s 3.34 lh. Moong or environmentally friendly gram has been seeded in 2.75 lh compared with 2.69 lh.
Larger oilseeds acreage
Total oilseeds acreage has been increased at 4.53 lh compared with 3.ninety three lh in exact same time period previous yr. The target location for oilseeds is 10.67 lh this yr. Farmers are noticed exhibiting preference in direction of soyabean, groundnut and sunflower. Until June twenty five, soyabean has been planted in 2.69 lh (2.forty seven lh exact same time period previous yr), even though groundnut has been planted in 1.07 lh (.eighty four lh) and sunflower in .fifty seven lh (.36 lh).
Cotton planting has been rather sluggish as the fibre crop has been planted in 1.65 lh compared with 2.39 lh in exact same time period previous yr. The Condition is targeting cotton acreage of seven.30 lh for the kharif time this yr. Among cereals, planting of paddy, jowar, ragi and bajra, among the other people, has been rather sluggish, so much.
