Kharif sowing touches 800 lakh hectares

Planting has been completed in three-fourth of kharif sowing place by now, using largely on fantastic monsoon and better drinking water storage in reservoirs.

In accordance to weekly details launched by Agriculture Ministry on Friday, kharif sowing has so much protected all over 800 lakh hectares (lh), approximately 18.five per cent a lot more place than 675 lh planted in the corresponding week final yr.

There is approximately 25 per cent a lot more planting in pulses and oilseed crops as compared to same week final yr. Thanks to boost in sowing in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka, the place less than pulses crops touched approximately a hundred lh as compared to seventy nine lh in the same period final yr.

Oilseeds, on the other hand, protected 166 lh as in opposition to 123 lh in the corresponding week final yr with Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra accounting for a lot more than a hundred lh. Though these two States accounted for approximately 85 per cent of soyabean planted place in the region, Gujarat greater groundnut cultivation place by approximately 50 per cent to 20 lh as compared to same week final yr.

Spurt in rice planting

Rice planting as well witnessed a spurt this week with farmers covering a lot more than 220 lh, approximately 17 per a lot more than about 188 lh planted in the same period in the prior yr. With a whole coverage of 118 lh, cotton is by now near to regular planting place and about 23 per cent a lot more than 96 lh planted this time final yr.

In the same way, uptick in bajra and maize cultivation pushed the whole place less than coarse cerals by fourteen per cent to 137 lh. The place protected in the corresponding week final yr was one hundred twenty lh.

Till Wednesday, the region as a entire obtained 289 millimetres of rainfall, approximately 6 per cent a lot more than the regular of 366 mm. About 70 per cent of 685 districts in the region have obtained regular or excessive monsoon rains until Wednesday.

There is approximately sixty six.37 billion cubic metres (BCM) of drinking water in 123 reservoirs routinely monitored by the Central Drinking water Fee. This is approximately fifty five per cent a lot more than 42.eighty three BCM drinking water obtainable in these drinking water bodies in the corresponding week final yr.