Rise in paddy, pulses area lifts kharif acreage to 1,121.81 lakh hectares
Regardless of a sluggish get started to kharif planting owing to erratic rains in various States all through the early portion of the season, the total acreage this 12 months has surpassed past year’s level primarily on account of increased area less than paddy and pulses.
The area less than paddy picked up momentum in direction of the fag finish of the planting season with the total area expanding by two.38 lakh hectares (lh) to one,121.eighty one lh. The area less than paddy is increased by 3.two per cent at 422.73 lh (409.39 lh).
Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab have reported an boost in area, while Odisha and Kerala registered a decrease.
Rain deficit down
The South-West monsoon ended up ordinary as a complete, even with various locations experiencing deficit all through early portion of the season. The cumulative rainfall for the nation, as a complete, all through theJune one-September thirty period of time) stood at 874 mm from a ordinary of 880.6 mm, a deficit of one particular per cent. Water storage in one hundred thirty major reservoirs was ninety two per cent of the live storage all through the similar period of time a 12 months in the past. There are no report of serious pest and condition attacks on the kharif crops, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
Among the pulses, the area less than tur/arhar (pigeon pea) amplified to 50.50 lh (forty eight.75 lh), while urad (black matpe) acreage stood at forty.05 lh (39.23 lh). The area less than moong (inexperienced gram) fell marginally to 35.forty one lh (35.53 lh), primarily owing to erratic rains in Rajasthan, the premier producer.
The area less than coarse/nutri cereals was down at 178.24 lh (182.95 lh) owing to decrease in jowar and bajra. Jowar acreage declined to 14.25 lh (15.13 lh), while that of bajra was at sixty three.37 lh (70.38 lh). Smaller millets acreage also came down to four.79 lh (four.90 lh).
The coverage of maize stood at eighty five.04 lh (82.03 lh), while ragi also amplified marginally to ten.79 lh (ten.51 lh).
Money crops
Among the oilseeds, the acreage less than groundnut was lessen at 49.forty four lh (51.17 lh), while soyabean remained flat at 122.23 lh. Sesamum and castorseed ended up lessen at 13.sixty two lh and seven.seventy one lh, respectively
Among the income crops, sugarcane received area at 55.22 lh (fifty four.twelve lh), while cotton ended the season with a deficit of close to seven.73 lh more than past 12 months. Cotton acreage stood at a hundred and twenty.15 lh (127.87 lh).
