Summer crops area up 15% at 56 lakh hectares

 

Planting of summer months crops has picked up and the complete acreage jumped by 15 per cent to exceed 56 lakh hectares till March 26 in opposition to forty eight.82 lakh ha in the course of the exact interval a 12 months in the past, as per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare’s hottest info.

Paddy acreage went up to 36.87 lakh ha — an increase of sixteen per cent around exact interval a 12 months in the past, as farmers in states this sort of as West Bengal and Telangana planted more region under the cereal crop.

The region under pulses greater to five.fifty three lakh ha (3.fifty eight lakh ha), though that of coarse cereals stood at six.seventy nine lakh ha (six.72 lakh ha).

“The development of summer months sowing development is incredibly superior as on day. Moreover, the prospect of rabi crops is also incredibly superior and about forty eight per cent of overall rabi crops have been harvested as on Friday. There is no effects of Covid-19 pandemic predicament on development of region protection under summer months crops in the region,” the Agriculture Ministry explained in a assertion.

The region under summer months maize crop has also greater marginally to four.71 lakh ha (four.29 lakh ha), though bajra and jowar noticed a dip in cultivation.

Coverage of oilseeds also noted a marginal increase at seven.twenty lakh ha (six.ninety one lakh ha).

Rainfall across the region from March 1 till day has been forty two per cent reduced and the dwell drinking water storage in 130 reservoirs stood at 86 per cent of corresponding previous 12 months.