The total area sown under kharif crops as on September 24, 2015, registered a marginal increase of 1.18 per cent at 1,026.23 lakh hectares against 1,014.24 lakh hectare in the same period in the previous year. Going through the latest figures furnished by the Ministry of Agriculture, total area under pulses accounted for a significant increase of 11.41 per cent. While areas sown under coarse cereals and oilseeds recorded a rise of 2.65 per cent and 3.49 per cent respectively, cotton saw a big fall of 8.39 per cent, followed by jute & mesta (4.06 per cent). There was a marginal increase in area under sugarcane at 0.21 per cent.
With sowing operations for kharif season nearly coming to an end, the area under rice, the main kharif crop, remained almost flat at 374.09 hectares against 373.86 lakh hectares. Pulses covered 113.45 lakh hectares against 101.83 lakh hectares.
Under this moong dal accounted for a significant rise of 20.49 per cent in acreage at 25.56 lakh hectares against 21.28 lakh hectares. The area under arhar rose by 4.06 per cent stood at 37.64 lakh hectares (36.17 lakh hectares) and urad by 9.52 per cent at 27.83 lakh hectares (25.41 lakh hectares).
Sugarcane covered marginal rise of 48.84 lakh hectares (48.74 lakh hectares). The area under cotton stood at 115.20 lakh hectares against 125.75 lakh hectares in the previous year. The details of the area covered so far and that covered during last year this time are given in the table.
Advance estimates
The recently released first advance estimates of production of major kharif crops for 2015-16 by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare revealed that total production of kharif foodgrains at 124.05 million tonnes a rise of 3.78 million tonnes over the previous year advance estimates of 120.27 million tonnes.
However, compared to the fourth advance estimates of 2014-15, which placed kharif production at 126.31 million tonnes, there is a decline of 2.26 million tonnes (1.8 per cent).
— S. Varadharajan
Areas under pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds register a rise
Source : The Hindu
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