Area of major kharif crop sowing increases 18.50% during 2020-21

27 Jul 2020 Evaluate

The Ministry of Agriculture’s latest data has showed that the area of major kharif crop sowing in the country increased by 18.50% to 799.95 lakh hectare during 2020-21, compared to 675.07 lakh hectare in the last Kharif season, on favourable rainfall in the third week of July. The data include major kharif crops such as paddy, pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds.

As per the data, paddy sowing was done in 220.24 lakh hectare out of the normal 397 lakh hectare till July 24. During the period under review last year, paddy was planted only in 187.70 lakh hectare. The 32.54 lakh hectare of increase in area under coverage was contributed by states like Uttar Pradesh (6.50 lakh hectare), Jharkhand (6.10 lakh hectare), Madhya Pradesh (5.98 lakh hectare), Bihar (5.66 lakh hectare), Chhattisgarh (3.57 lakh hectare) and West Bengal (2.80 lakh hectare).

In pulses, the total sowed area was 99.71 lakh hectare out of 128.88 lakh hectare. So far, the coverage is higher by over 25 percent over the same period last year. While area coverage of coarse cereals such as jowar, bajra, ragi and maize was increased by 16.83 lakh hectare over the period under review, that of oilseeds was up by 32.80 lakh hectare till now. Jute and Mesta showed a marginal growth of 1.49 percent so far. Data showed almost 90 percent sowing had completed out of 7.87 lakh hectare of normal sowing.

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