Even as monsoon recovers, kharif area trails

As the deficiency in monsoon declined, planting of kharif crops throughout the place picked up momentum.

So significantly, 848 lakh hectares (lh) have been lined in opposition to 890 lh sown in the exact same period of time a 12 months ago, info released by Agriculture Ministry on Friday confirmed.

Tardy progress in rice

Rice has been planted on 265 lh — 4 per cent reduce than about 276 lh sown in the exact same week prior period.

Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal reported subdued planting, even though Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana lined extra area. At about 108 lh, the area underneath pulses is about three per cent reduce than the corresponding week past 12 months, but arhar (pigeon pea) acreage is in constructive territory with a 4 per cent raise in excess of past 12 months.

Acreages of moong and urad are down by virtually ten per cent in comparison with the exact same period of time past 12 months. The oilseeds area continues to lag by six per cent and only 164 lh has been lined so significantly. The area of groundnut is about ten per cent down, even though the shortfall in soyabean planting came down to three per cent.

While oilseeds planting gathered pace in Rajasthan, that in Madhya Pradesh is nonetheless down by ten per cent in comparison with the exact same week past 12 months.

At 111 lh, area underneath cotton is nonetheless reduce by 9 per cent than the corresponding period of time past 12 months.

Storage ranges up

The place as a entire received 416.six mm of rainfall till Wednesday, which is two per cent reduce than the standard of 424.1 mm.

The rains have served improve water storage ranges in a hundred thirty reservoirs monitored by the Central Water Commission.

As on Thursday, these water bodies have a whole of eighty five.36 billion cubic metres (BCM) of water which is significantly superior than 70.77 BCM in the corresponding week a 12 months ago.