Rabi sowing in Telangana rises 31% to 4.9 mln acres as of Wed; maize up 47%
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MUMBAI – Rabi sowing in Telangana reached 4.9 million acres as of Wednesday, rising 31.2% from 3.8 million acres a year ago, according to a report released by the state agriculture department. The normal acreage for the season in Telangana is 6.35 million acres (1 acre = 0.4 hectares), the report said.
Maize acreage in the state rose nearly 47% to 626,792 acres from 426,500 acres a year ago. The acreage of paddy rose to 3.6 million acres from 2.7 million acres, the data showed. The area under jowar was 150,794 acres, up from 106,854 acres a year ago.
Adequate rainfall in late September and early October led to optimal conditions for sowing of rabi crops, as per the report. Telangana received 30% excess rainfall during the southwest monsoon season at 962.6 mm, compared with the normal of 738.6 mm, the report said.
Rabi crops in Telangana are sown between October and December after the monsoon rains are over, and harvested between February and May. This year, however, sowing started late because of delay in the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon, which in turn delayed the harvest of kharif crops.
Chana acreage so far was 217,178 acres, down from 249,065 acres a year ago. The area under black gram, or urad, rose to 40,664 acres from 28,996 acres a year ago, according to the report. The total area under pulses fell to 270,944 acres from 291,902 acres.
The total area under oilseeds as of Wednesday was 244,220 acres, up from 230,586 acres a year ago. Under oilseeds, the acreage of groundnut rose to 224,872 acres from 195,444 acres a year ago, the report said.
Tobacco acreage rose to 10,888 acres from 6,241 acres in the corresponding period last year, according to the report.
Most crops are in the seedling to vegetative stage, the report said. Paddy sowing is in progress and the early-sown groundnut crop is in the flowering to ripening stage, it said.
The water level in reservoirs across Telangana was 663.84 billion cubic metres as of Wednesday, compared with 392.03 billion cubic metres a year ago, according to the report. End
Reported by Shreya Shetty
Edited by Subhojit Sarkar
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