Summer crop acreage under pulses, maize up

Planting of pulses and maize has picked up even as paddy continues to make large gains in the ongoing summer cropping year with farmers bringing in a lot more region underneath the cereal crop in West Bengal and Telangana.

As of March 12, pulses acreage has moved up by about a fifth with the two black gram and inexperienced gram attaining acreage in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Bihar among many others. Black gram was planted on 1.eighteen lakh ha (.79 lakh ha in prior yr), whilst inexperienced gram region stood at 1.96 lakh ha (1.eighty one lakh ha).

Paddy continued to rise with acreage bigger at 33.seventy two lha (26.sixty five lha). West Bengal has viewed paddy acreage rise to 9.83 lakh ha, adopted by Telangana at 9.77 lakh ha and Karnataka at two.fifty nine lakh ha. Among the coarse cereals, maize region has been bigger at 3.ninety four lakh ha (3.23 lha), whilst jowar and bajra have viewed a decrease. All round oilseeds region has viewed a marginal raise at 5.88 lakh ha (5.fifty four lakh ha). All round acreage underneath the summer crops stood 22 for each cent bigger at 47.93 lakh ha (39.38 lakh ha).

Storage degrees

The precise rain slide across the nation was decreased by 55 for each cent at four.two mm towards the regular through the very first 12 times of March. According to the Central H2o Commission the stay drinking water storage in 130 reservoirs across the nation was 88 for each cent of the stay storage in the corresponding period as of February 25. Also the drinking water storage is 123 for each cent of the previous ten yr regular for the period.