Area under kharif crops slips further as rainfall deficit tops 10%

With rain deficit topping 10 per cent from June one until Friday in the recent monsoon period, the protection of kharif crops dropped further by one.seventy six per cent cent as opposed with the corresponding time period a yr in the past. Farmers have so considerably planted on one,064 lakh hectares (lh) towards one,083 lh in the identical time period a yr in the past. Very last week, this hole in acreage was one.fifty six per cent.

The place underneath rice, oilseeds, cotton and coarse cereals has dropped, when sowing of pulses and sugarcane are up. Between oilseeds, the protection of soyabean has increased but that of groundnut and sesame is down. Maize place is up in the coarse cereals basket, but protection of other grains has declined. In the pulses portion, the place underneath arhar has increased, when urad acreage is pretty much unchanged but that of moong is down.

Deficiency in N-W

The drop in acreage is largely on account of over 50 per cent deficient rainfall in Gujarat, specifically the Saurashtra area, when in western Rajasthan the deficit is 22 per cent. Irrespective of the 10 per cent deficient rainfall, kharif sowing has managed to keep rate with ordinary acreage as the distribution of the monsoon has been great. Lack of adequate rainfall in north-western sections has resulted in cotton becoming the most influenced. Its acreage is lessen by eight.5 per cent yr-on-yr (YoY). Spot underneath cotton is down to 117 lh (128 lh).

Rice place edges down

According to facts launched by the Agriculture Ministry, rice has been planted on 389 lh towards 393 lh in the identical time period previous kharif period. Uttar Pradesh with over sixty lh, West Bengal with forty one lh and Chhattisgarh with practically 37 lh have recorded a increase in acreage underneath rice, adopted by Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. Though most States additional or significantly less preserved their acreage as opposed with previous yr the earlier kharif period, there is a drop in planting in Chhattisgarh and an and an increased in Madhya Pradesh.

At practically 136 lh, the place underneath pulses is marginally better YoY. Arhar has been planted on over forty nine lh ( as as opposed with forty seven lh). This YoYnot only accounted for the increase is boost but even covered for practically two per cent drop in moong cultivation.

A marginal 1 per cent boost in soyabean place at 121.5 lh has not been ready to compensate for the drop in groundnut acreage and as a final result the oilseeds place is one.5 per cent significantly less at 189.5 lh. The place underneath coarse cereals, much too, is down by one.six per cent as as opposed with the identical week a yr in the past at 169 lh.

Storage degrees down

H2o storage in 130 reservoirs monitored by Central H2o Commission is 108.fifty eight billion cubic metre (BCM) as opposed with 130.sixty three BCM for the duration of the identical time period a yr in the past.