Rabi planting hits an all-time high at 675 lakh ha

Rabi sowing in the country established a new history by covering an spot of 675 lakh hectares (lha), nearly 2 for each cent far more than 662 lha planted in the full season in 2019-20 till close of this 7 days, according to info unveiled by the Agriculture Ministry on Friday.

The sowing in the existing season is not above yet.

All important rabi crops, barring a couple of coarse cereals, surpassed the spot planted in the past season, which was by considerably the greatest, previously. At 345 lha, acreage of wheat is at all-time large. The wheat sown spot in the corresponding 7 days final year was close to 335 lha, which moved up marginally to around 336 lha by the close of the past rabi season. A lot of the increase in wheat planting was reported from Madhya Pradesh — which planted an supplemental spot of eight.three lha and Maharashtra one lha far more.

Other crops

Gram and mustard are two other crops which have completed exceedingly effectively in terms of protection. Gram has been planted above nearly 111 lha, when mustard fields lined close to 74 lha. At the close of the past rabi season, the spot of gram and mustard was around 107 lha and 70 lha, respectively.

The spot under rice was close to 30 lha (26 lha). A lot of the increase in rice spot came from Telangana which planted an supplemental three.49 lha under rice.

Even so, there is a dip in spot under coarse cereals. As in comparison to nearly 55 lha planted in the exact same 7 days final year, coarse cereals lined only around fifty one lha so considerably.

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar congratulated farmers in the country for their tireless tricky get the job done. “Despite the corona epidemic, farmers have attained history spot protection under rabi crops as effectively as in kharif season, which is impressive,” Tomar stated.