March 28, 2024

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Set for a record: Rabi sowing at 644 lakh ha on higher wheat area

Rabi sowing is in complete swing and it appears to be heading for masking a document region with planting so significantly masking 644 lakh hectares (lha), 2.six per cent additional than practically 628 lha sown in the corresponding week in the past period, according to facts released by Agriculture Ministry on Friday.

Farmers have planted wheat more than 335 lha as in opposition to practically 327 lha lined in the very same week final year.

Madhya Pradesh, which planted practically 88 lha, practically 10 lha additional than very same period of time final year.

Bihar and Maharashtra with an additional region of one.seven lha and one.4 lha, respectively not only lined the shortfall in sowing in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh but aided sign-up an raise in total wheat region in the region.

Document pulses region witnessed

One more crop that headed for a document region is pulses which is shut to 160 lha (153 lha).

Gram — which is sown more than 108 lha so significantly — accounted for considerably of the raise in pulses region. The region less than gram is practically 4.4 per cent bigger as in contrast to very same period of time final year.

Oilseeds displaying has presently touched the document mark with an region of practically 82 lha. The region planted in the very same period of time final year was considerably less than seventy eight lha.

The region less than rapeseed-mustard crop is close to 73 lha, practically 5 lha additional than very same week in 2019-twenty.

Coarse cereals, on the other hand, registered a practically seven per cent dip in region as in contrast to very same period of time final year.

The region less than coarse cereals was a very little more than 48 lha (52 lha).

Wintertime rice planting is nonetheless to choose up momentum. The region lined so significantly is only close to 19 lha and 50 percent of it in Tamil Nadu.

 

Storage stages down

In 128 reservoirs monitored by the Central Drinking water Commission, a cumulative water storage of 119.64 billion cubic metre (BCM) as in opposition to 132 BCM in the corresponding week final year.