Space below summer season crops up 8% on greater paddy, pulses protection

The world below summer season crops has reached 64.47 lakh hectares (lh) as of Friday, which is 8 per cent greater than 59.59 lh reported within the year-ago interval because the zaid season sowing continues to progress properly. The whole regular space below zaid crops, grown earlier than kharif sowing and after rabi harvest, is estimated at 66 lh within the season.

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The sowing below summer season paddy has elevated to 29.80 lh till April 19, which is 9 per cent greater than the 27.41 lh reported within the year-ago interval.

Summer time pulses areas are up 10 per cent at 13.12 lh from 11.96 lh as greater urad and moong acreage has been reported this yr. Moong crop sowing is up at 10.36 lh towards 9.42 lh a yr in the past and urad rose at 2.76 lh from 2.54 lh. The important thing growers of summer season pulses are Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

Maize space up

Oilseeds acreage has been reported at 9.65 lh, up by 5 per cent from 9.18 lh. Groundnut has been sown on 4.58 lh and sesamum on 4.74 lh. Each seasmum and groundnut protection is greater from the year-ago interval. Sunflower acreage reached 33,000 hectares as towards 29,000 hectares a yr in the past.

The acreage below summer-grown nutri cereals and maize is up 9 per cent at 11.31 lh from 10.35 lh as greater protection of jowar, bajra and maize has been reported this yr. Jowar sowing is up at 37,000 hectares towards 16,000 hectares within the year-ago interval whereas bajra acreage was reported 6 per cent greater at 4.61 lh from 4.36 lh. Maize acreage, too, is up 9 per cent at 6.33 lh from 5.82 lh.

Poor rainfall

In the meantime, the cumulative rainfall in pre-monsoon season since March 1 is eighteen per cent beneath regular at 42.5 mm towards 52 mm, thought of regular on pan-India foundation, till April 19. Whereas North-West area has 11 per cent deficit, central India has obtained 89 per cent greater precipitation than its lengthy interval common (LPA) between March 1 and April 19.

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The southern peninsula area has obtained 72 per cent beneath regular rainfall and East and north-east India 32 per cent decrease than common precipitation, India Meteorological Division knowledge present.