jharkhand: Paddy sowing down by 5.99 laptop to this point; main lag in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chattisgarh
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It’s the essential kharif crop, sowing of which begins with the onset of the southwest monsoon from June and harvesting from October onwards.
As per the info, much less paddy space is reported from Jharkhand — 10.51 lakh hectare (ha), West Bengal (4.62 lakh ha), Chhattisgarh (3.45 lakh ha), Uttar Pradesh (2.63 lakh ha), Bihar (2.40 lakh ha), and Odisha (2.24 lakh ha) until August 26 this kharif season.
Space sown to paddy stays decrease even in Assam (0.49 lakh ha), Madhya Pradesh (0.46 lakh ha), Haryana (0.44 lakh ha), Tripura (0.22 lakh ha), Nagaland (0.21 lakh ha), Meghalaya (0.18 lakh ha), Punjab (0.12 lakh ha), Maharashtra (0.07 lakh ha), Jammu & Kashmir (0.05 lakh ha), Goa (0.03 lakh ha), Mizoram (0.03 lakh ha) and Sikkim (0.02 lakh ha) within the mentioned interval.
In addition to paddy, there was a 4.95 per cent decline in whole pulses space to 127.71 lakh ha until August 26 of the kharif season of the 2022-23 crop yr (July-June) towards 134.37 lakh ha within the year-ago interval.
Tur/arhar space was down marginally at 44.07 lakh ha towards 47.20 lakh ha, whereas that of urad acreage was lagging barely at 36.15 lakh ha in comparison with 37.91 lakh ha within the comparable interval.
Oilseeds protection too was lagging as the realm protection was down marginally at 186.48 lakh ha until August 26 of this kharif season towards 188.62 lakh ha within the year-ago interval.
Nevertheless, within the case of coarse-cum-nutri cereals, the sowing was barely up at 176.33 lakh ha from 169.39 lakh ha a yr in the past.
Amongst money crops, cotton acreage remained up at 124.55 lakh ha, and the sugarcane space was barely greater at 55.59 lakh ha year-on-year. Jute/mesta space remained flat at 6.94 lakh ha until August 26, the info confirmed.
Based on the Indian Meteorological Division (IMD), the nation has obtained 9 per cent greater southwest monsoon rains until August 24. Nevertheless, east and north-eastern India have reported 19 per cent poor rainfall in the identical interval.
