Summer crop acreage under pulses, maize up
Planting of pulses and maize has picked up even as paddy proceeds to make major gains in the ongoing summer season cropping period with farmers bringing in more place under the cereal crop in West Bengal and Telangana.
As of March 12, pulses acreage has moved up by about a fifth with the two black gram and green gram gaining acreage in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Bihar amongst many others. Black gram was planted on one.eighteen lakh ha (.seventy nine lakh ha in former yr), though green gram place stood at one.ninety six lakh ha (one.eighty one lakh ha).
Paddy ongoing to increase with acreage increased at 33.seventy two lha (26.65 lha). West Bengal has observed paddy acreage increase to nine.83 lakh ha, followed by Telangana at nine.seventy seven lakh ha and Karnataka at two.59 lakh ha. Among the coarse cereals, maize place has been increased at three.ninety four lakh ha (three.23 lha), though jowar and bajra have observed a decline. Overall oilseeds place has observed a marginal raise at 5.88 lakh ha (5.fifty four lakh ha). Overall acreage under the summer season crops stood 22 per cent increased at 47.93 lakh ha (39.38 lakh ha).
Storage ranges
The genuine rain tumble across the region was lessen by 55 per cent at four.two mm against the usual during the to start with 12 times of March. In accordance to the Central Water Fee the are living drinking water storage in a hundred thirty reservoirs across the region was 88 per cent of the are living storage in the corresponding period as of February 25. Also the drinking water storage is 123 per cent of the previous ten yr regular for the period.
