March 29, 2024

Deabruak

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Kharif acreage jumps to 966 lha

 

Kharif planting is all established for a new report with sown spot below numerous crops which include big oilseeds and cotton exceeding the ordinary spot. According to kharif sowing knowledge launched by Agriculture Ministry on Friday, a overall of 966 lakh hectares (lh) have been planted until date, practically ten per cent more than 878 lh sown in the corresponding 7 days very last year.

Though there is practically two months still left in the time, crops these types of as soyabean, cotton, maize and groundnut previously surpassed the ordinary sown spot. As versus the selected spot of 110 lh, soyabean is sown over 118 lh so considerably. Similarly, cotton has lined 123.sixty four lh as versus the ordinary spot of 121 lh. The spot sown in the exact same 7 days very last year was 118.73 lh.

At 47.29 lh, groundnut planting is practically 44 per cent more than 32.86 lh in the corresponding 7 days in the earlier kharif time. The ordinary spot below groundnut is 41.41 lh. In opposition to the assigned spot of seventy four.73 lh, maize is planted over seventy five.88 lh previously.

 

 

Magnificent rise

There is a stunning seventeen per cent boost in rice planting far too. As in comparison to 274 lh planted in exact same 7 days very last year, the spot below rice so considerably is practically 322 lh. Similarly, there is a 4 per cent boost in spot below pulses with moong exceeding its ordinary spot and urad and arhar inching nearer to the respective ordinary places. Total below pulses so considerably is close to 120 lh as versus a hundred and fifteen lh planted in the exact same period very last year.

The spot below coarse cereals is 160 lh as in comparison to 155 lh exact same 7 days very last year, when the spot below sugarcane is marginally larger at fifty two lh. Country as a whole been given 505.7 millimetres of rainfall as versus the ordinary 507.3 mm until Thursday. Cumulative drinking water storage in 123 reservoirs across the nation monitored by the Central Water Commission is 108 per cent of that in the corresponding 7 days very last year.