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More rains for Tamil Nadu as fresh low-pressure area brews in the Bay
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has taken a phone on a lower-strain place getting created around the South-East Bay of Bengal as early as tomorrow (Wednesday) from the ongoing easterly wave exercise, promising a different spell of weighty to incredibly weighty showers/rain for Coastal Tamil Nadu, South Coastal Andhra Pradesh and parts of Kerala. The ‘low’ will probably travel to the West-North-West towards the Sri Lanka and adjoining Tamil Nadu coast, with the southern parts of the latter probably having impacted by a direct hit. Its location and bearing is just correct for the south-easterly to easterly rain bands to lash the rest of the Tamil Nadu coast, according to a…
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Kharif area trails despite late surge in paddy
Despite the location underneath paddy getting traction in the past leg of kharif sowing period, the complete acreage is established to sooner or later end a tad decreased than past 12 months. The complete kharif location, as of mid-September, stood at 1105.19 lakh hectares (lh) — .83 for each cent decreased than prior year’s 1114.fifty lh. Monsoon’s pause variable Soon after a sluggish begin due to the south-west monsoon taking a “break” in mid-June and early July, generally in sections of Western and Central India, farmers have bridged the gap in acreageplanting extra of paddy, pulses such as tur and urad, sugarcane, jute and mesta. Prolonged dry spells, which incorporates…
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Area under kharif crops slips further as rainfall deficit tops 10%
With rain deficit topping 10 for each cent from June one until Friday in the present monsoon time, the protection of kharif crops dropped further more by one.seventy six for each cent cent in comparison with the corresponding period of time a 12 months back. Farmers have so considerably planted on one,064 lakh hectares (lh) from one,083 lh in the very same period of time a 12 months back. Previous week, this hole in acreage was one.56 for each cent. The region underneath rice, oilseeds, cotton and coarse cereals has dropped, when sowing of pulses and sugarcane are up. Among oilseeds, the protection of soyabean has enhanced but that…
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Even as monsoon recovers, kharif area trails
As the deficiency in monsoon declined, planting of kharif crops throughout the state picked up momentum. So much, 848 lakh hectares (lh) have been included towards 890 lh sown in the exact same interval a 12 months in the past, knowledge unveiled by Agriculture Ministry on Friday confirmed. Tardy progress in rice Rice has been planted on 265 lh — four for each cent decrease than all over 276 lh sown in the exact same 7 days previous season. Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal described subdued planting, while Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana included additional region. At all over 108 lh, the region beneath pulses is about…
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Karnataka area under maize up 41 per cent in early kharif sowing
Maize (corn) acreage has jumped forty one for every cent Karnataka, the most significant producer of the corase cereal, through the present kharif time as farmers are witnessed bringing in a lot more place below the coarse cereal crop. This arrives even as kharif sowing has taken spot on 28.seventeen lakh hectares (lh) of the targeted 77 lh in the State, as of June 25. Maize sowing has been competled in 7.47 lakh ha till June 25, forty one for every cent increased than corresponding 5.30 lh a 12 months ago. The concentrate on place for maize this kharif in the State is eleven.84 lh and sowing has been finish…
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Bengal’s potato output seen up by 16% on higher area, favourable weather
Potato production in West Bengal is estimated to be greater by just about 16 for each cent at 110 lakh tonnes (lt) this year, in contrast to 95 lt in 2020. The greater production of the tuber in Bengal and other crucial expanding States together with Uttar Pradesh and Punjab is most likely to exert force on rates. Wholesale price of the tuber (the popular Jyoti variety) has previously halved to ₹800 a quintal throughout various markets in the State in contrast to ₹1,five hundred-1,600 in the exact same interval very last year. Potato cold storages could run out of space quickly According to Patit Paban De, former president of…
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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…
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Set for a record: Rabi sowing at 644 lakh ha on higher wheat area
Rabi sowing is in whole swing and it appears to be heading for covering a history space with planting so considerably covering 644 lakh hectares (lha), two.6 for each cent far more than approximately 628 lha sown in the corresponding 7 days in the past time, according to data launched by Agriculture Ministry on Friday. Farmers have planted wheat more than 335 lha as in opposition to approximately 327 lha covered in the very same 7 days very last yr. Madhya Pradesh, which planted approximately 88 lha, approximately ten lha far more than very same time period very last yr. Bihar and Maharashtra with an further space of 1.seven lha…
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Expert seeks cashew area expansion in Karnataka
Farmers in simple land areas of Karnataka can think of taking up cultivation of cashew as a professional crop, according to TR Guruprasad, a cashew scientist. Talking at a webinar on ‘Modern cashew cultivation practices’, organised by the Krishi Vijnan Kendra of Kolar in Karnataka on Friday, he stated that all-around a single lakh hectares of simple land areas in distinctive districts of Karnataka can be applied for cashew cultivation. Farmers in districts this kind of as Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Tumakuru, Mysuru, Mandya, and Chitradurga can think of taking up cultivation of cashew as a professional crop, he stated. Also study: Why growers of plantation crops want weather-based mostly insurance The…
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India’s area under kharif crops hits all-time high of over 108 mn hectares
Sowing of kharif crops touched an all-time superior location of 108.22 million hectares for the duration of the 7 days ended August 28, boosting hopes of a bumper harvest in excessive of 149 million tonnes for the duration of the year. The past all-time superior kharif acreage was in the kharif year of 2016, at 107.57 million hectares . A excellent kharif output could enable tame in general retail inflation in just the Reserve financial institution of India’s threshold band of 2-6 for every cent in the months to appear. Retail inflation considering the fact that April has been hovering at 7 for every cent mainly owing to superior meals…
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