Karnataka area under maize up 41 per cent in early kharif sowing

Maize (corn) acreage has jumped 41 per cent Karnataka, the premier producer of the corase cereal, for the duration of the latest kharif time as farmers are witnessed bringing in much more area underneath the coarse cereal crop. This comes even as kharif sowing has taken location on 28.17 lakh hectares (lh) of the targeted seventy seven lh in the Point out, as of June twenty five.

Maize sowing has been competled in 7.47 lakh ha until June twenty five, 41 per cent bigger than corresponding five.30 lh a calendar year back. The target area for maize this kharif in the Point out is 11.eighty four lh and sowing has been finish in about sixty three per cent of the targeted area. Maize planting is finish in six.31 lh of the targeted rainfed area of eight.72 lh. In irrigated disorders, maize sowing has taken location in one.sixteen lh of the targeted three.twelve lh.

Superior rainfall

Superior pre-monsoon showers and well distributed monsoon rainfall, so much, has aided the kharif sowing in the Point out. Rainfall for the duration of June was 31 per cent bigger at 405 mm versus the typical of 310 mm for the month. Essential maize rising locations of Davangere and Chitradurga districts in south inside Karnataka have been given eighty one and 45 per cent much more rainfall than typical for the duration of June.

Official sources reported the development of the Kharif sowing has been superior so much. Whole acreages are bigger by about eight per cent about the very same time period last calendar year.

Amplified pulses area

Among the other crops, oilseeds and pulses area have increased marginally as opposed with last calendar year. Pulses have been sown on 7.33 lh as opposed with 7.30 lh in very same time period last calendar year. Concentrate on area for pulses is 21.07 lh, of which tur acreage is targeted at fourteen.31 lh. Tur has so much been planted in three.31 lh, marginally decrease than last year’s three.34 lh. Moong or eco-friendly gram has been seeded in two.seventy five lh as opposed with two.69 lh.

Increased oilseeds acreage

Whole oilseeds acreage has been bigger at four.53 lh as opposed with three.93 lh in very same time period last calendar year. The target area for oilseeds is ten.sixty seven lh this calendar year. Farmers are witnessed demonstrating preference towards soyabean, groundnut and sunflower. Until June twenty five, soyabean has been planted in two.69 lh (two.47 lh very same time period last calendar year), even though groundnut has been planted in one.07 lh (.eighty four lh) and sunflower in .fifty seven lh (.36 lh).

Cotton planting has been rather sluggish as the fibre crop has been planted in one.sixty five lh as opposed with two.39 lh in very same time period last calendar year. The Point out is focusing on cotton acreage of 7.30 lh for the kharif time this calendar year. Among the cereals, planting of paddy, jowar, ragi and bajra, among other folks, has been rather sluggish, so much.