Rabi sowing scaled new heights with farmers planting winter crops of more than practically 685 lakh hectares (lha), that is about three for every cent more than 666 lha protected in the exact 7 days previous calendar year, according to knowledge unveiled by the Agriculture Ministry on Friday.
All-time highs
The space below key rabi crops these types of as wheat, gram and mustard are at all-time highs this calendar year. Although wheat is sown more than 346 lha compared with 336 lha planted in the exact 7 days previous calendar year, gram space stood at 112 lha, which is 4.37 for every cent more than that in the corresponding interval in 2019-20. Mustard acreage, on the other hand, expanded to 74 lha, which is 7 for every cent more than 69 lha planted in the prior rabi year.
The complete pulses space was more than 167 lha compared to practically 163 lha in the 2019-20 year. Winter rice cultivation in the course of the 7 days too registered all-around seventeen for every cent calendar year-on-calendar year to a small more than 35 lha.
Coarse cereals acreage
The only set of crops that shrunk in space was coarse cereals. As versus 56 lha planted in the exact interval in the previous rabi year, the space protected till this 7 days was shut to fifty two lha. All key rabi coarse cereal crops these types of as barley, jowar and maize registered a dip in space. At all-around 27 lha, the space below jowar crop was 10 for every cent decrease than exact 7 days previous calendar year.
Water reservoir situation and the soil dampness in practically all States are incredibly great. So, the prospect for rabi crops is incredibly great, the Ministry explained in a assertion.
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