Area sown under mustard seed crop up 22.46% in ongoing 2021-22 rabi season: Agriculture Ministry

03 Jan 2022 Evaluate

The agriculture ministry in its latest data has showed that area sown under rapeseed/mustard seed crop is higher 22.46 per cent to 88.54 lakh hectare as against 72.30 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. On the other hand, the coverage under wheat crop remains slightly lower so far in the ongoing 2021-22 rabi season. Wheat, the main rabi crop, has been planted at 325.88 lakh hectare as on December 31, 2021, compared with 329.11 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. Sowing of rabi crops like wheat begins in October and harvesting from April onwards.

According to the data, total area under oilseeds has increased sharply to 97.07 lakh hectare as on December 31, 2021 from 80.64 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. Area sown under groundnut remained flat at 3.64 lakh hectare, linseed at 2.57 lakh hectare, sunflower at 1.01 lakh hectare, safflower at 0.68 lakh hectare, sesamum at 0.30 lakh hectare, and other oilseeds at 0.33 lakh hectare in the period. In case of other major rabi crops, area sown under pulses remained slightly lower at 152.62 lakh hectare as on December 31, 2021 as against 154.04 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. Gram, the main rabi pulse, was grown in a slightly higher area of 107.69 lakh hectare as against 105.68 lakh hectare in the year-ago period.

Area sown to lentil was marginally higher at 16.76 lakh hectare, while field pea was sown in 9.61 lakh hectare, kulthi in 3.34 lakh hectare, urad bean in 5.66 lakh hectare, moong bean in 2.29 lakh hectare and lathyrus in 3.32 lakh hectare so far in the ongoing rabi season of 2021-22 crop year (July-June). There was less coverage under coarse-cum-nutri cereals as the total area was down at 45.05 lakh hectare as against 46.19 lakh hectare. Jowar sowing was lagging behind at 23.17 lakh hectare so far this rabi season as against 26.05 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, while coverage under maize was up at 14.80 lakh hectare as against 12.89 lakh hectare. Total area under all rabi crops rose to 634.68 lakh hectare so far in the 2021-22 rabi season from 625.04 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, the data showed.

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