Summer crops sowing at par with last year
Even as the zaid crops sowing in the state progresses, the authorities is confident of covering a lot more parts this yr, specially beneath pulses and oilseeds. The planting space underneath the summer time crops, sown immediately after rabi harvest and right before kharif period, attained at 34.23 lakh hectares (lh) as on Friday, which is at par with calendar year-back level.
All round summer months rice acreage is lower at 23.98 lh compared with 25.28 lh during the corresponding time period previous yr. The location underneath the crop in West Bengal is pegged at 8.19 lh, 6.74 lh in Telangana, 2.23 lh in Karnataka , 1.90 lh in Odisha, 1.59 lh in Assam, .77 lh in Chhattisgarh, .67 lh in Andhra Pradesh, .63 lh in Tamil Nadu, .40 lh in Kerala, .26 lh in Maharashtra, .13 lh in Jharkhand and .02 lh in Bihar, according to weekly update launched by Union Agriculture Ministry.
Pulses
About 2.88 lh area coverage has been noted under pulses as against 2.48 lh all through the year-ago time period as the two sowing of moong and urad is higher. The key sowing locations are in Tamil Nadu (1.72 lh), West Bengal (.60 lh), Chhattisgarh (.17 lh), Gujarat (.12 lh), Karnataka (.10 lh), Uttar Pradesh (.09 lh), Maharashtra (.05 lh), Assam (.02 lh) and Jharkhand (.02 lh).
The sowing space underneath oilseeds was noted at 4.18 lh, a notch down from 4.20 lh in the yr-in the past period of time. The area less than oilseeds has been reported from West Bengal (.99 lh), Karnataka (.92 lh), Telangana (.46 lh), Maharashtra (.39 lh), Gujarat (.30 lh), Tamil Nadu (.30 lh), Andhra Pradesh (.26 lh), Chhattisgarh (.24 lh), Odisha (.19 lh) and Uttar Pradesh (.14 lh).
Between the coarse cereals, the maize place is better at 2.76 lh from 2.01 lh in the yr-ago time period, which served the overall sowing to arrive at at 3.20 lh from 2.22 lh. The spot protection less than of coarse cereals stands at .99 lh in West Bengal , .93 lh in Chhattisgarh, .45 lh in Karnataka, .32 lh in Uttar Pradesh, .26 lh in Gujarat, .18 lh in Maharashtra and .07 lh in Tamil Nadu .
Revealed on
March 11, 2022
