Tur output may shrink despite higher acreage
Generation of tur/crimson gram (arhar or pigeon pea) is set to decrease despite farmers bringing in additional location beneath the key kharif pulses crop.
The steady modern rains in the important-increasing locations of Karnataka and Maharashtra are noticed impacting tur, each growers and traders reported. Karnataka and Maharashtra accounted for above 50 % the planted location beneath tur this calendar year.
“The circumstance is negative this calendar year as we worry a key crop reduction,” reported Basavaraj Ingin, President of Karnataka Pradesh Purple Gram Growers Affiliation in Kalaburgi, the key manufacturing region in the State. Kalaburgi accounts for above a tenth of tur location in the nation. “We really feel that crop has been impacted in about 70 per cent of the planted location in Kalaburgi,” Ingin reported.

Above the past fortnight, Kalaburgi witnessed steady rains and fields all over rivers and rivulets are waterlogged. Even the low-lying locations are waterlogged and unless it drains speedy, tur crops will rotting start out. “This is the 3rd time this kharif time, that we have witnessed steady rains for above a 7 days. We experienced steady rains in July and August way too,” Ingin reported.
Rainfall details
According to the rainfall details of the Karnataka State Normal Catastrophe Checking Centre (KSNDMC), Kalaburgi obtained 26 per cent extra rainfall throughout the June 1-September 30 time period of the South-West Monsoon this calendar year. Cumulative rainfall for Karnataka as a full throughout this time period was a deficit of 8 per cent.
Rathindranath Sugur, Joint Director Agriculture, Kalaburgi, reported, until August-conclude, the crop losses were estimated in location of fifty five,000 hectares as the district experienced obtained extra rains in July. The September rains have inflicted crop losses in a further fifty,000 hectares, according to a preliminary survey.
A clearer picture will emerge in subsequent 10-fifteen days, Sugur reported. Of the cropped location of 7.5 lakh hectares (lh) in Kalaburgi, tur has been planted in about 5.7 lh. “Tur crop has began wilting in the h2o logged low lying locations and owing to the prevailing cloudy climatic situations, the flowering is delayed, which could have an affect on yields,” Sugur reported.
The Agriculture Ministry, in its first advance estimates, has pegged the tur crop at 4.43 million tonnes (mt) when compared with 4.28 mt last calendar year (per the fourth advance estimates). Total pulses output is projected to be larger at 9.forty five mt (eight.sixty nine mt).
Santosh Langar, a miller in Kalaburgi, estimates that there would be a 20 per cent crop reduction owing to extra rains. The losses could worsen, if there are further more rains above the subsequent several days. “There are forecast that there could be additional rains owing to the cyclone Gulab,” he reported.
In Maharashtra, tur has been impacted in locations these kinds of as Vidarbha and Marathwada, amongst some others. “About 10-fifteen per cent of the standing crop has been impacted owing to h2o logging and flooding of the fields subsequent to rivers and streams,” reported Nitin Kalantri of Kalantri Meals, a pulses processor in Latur.
Stating that farmers have confronted popular losses owing to extra rains, Moula Mulla, President of the Kalaburgi district of All India Kisan Sabha, reported the federal government really should immediately compensate the growers with a minimum amount of ₹25,000 per acre to offset the losses and help them put together to acquire up the rabi sowing.
Mulla estimates that tur crop has been harmed in at least 10 lakh acre of the 12 lakh acre planted location. Even soyabean growers have been impacted, he extra. Langar reported the sector has not reacted to the crop losses as the import window has been retained open by the federal government.