Rabi Plantation To Boom Due To Heavy Rains
Pune, 1st December 2022: This year, heavy rains and return rains caused great damage to crops. However, rabi season sowing has increased as the state has been watered by heavy rains. Compared to last year, 135 per cent of sowing has been done by the end of November. According to the information from the agriculture department, sowing has been done on 40 lakh hectares by the end of November, and the area of rabi will reach 65 lakh hectares by the end of December.
According to Vikas Patil, Director of the Development and Extension Department of Agriculture Department, 39,29,792 hectares have been sown by the end of November. This sowing is 135 per cent of last year. Since Rabi sowing will be done at the end of December, it is likely to increase to 65 lakh hectares this year. The average rabi area of the state is 55 lakh hectares. Last year, 60 lakh hectares were sown.
As compared to last year, in the state at the end of November this year, rabi jowar was 102 per cent, wheat 160 per cent, maize 140 per cent, rabi bajri, other cereals including oat barley 114 per cent, gram 152 per cent, rabi moong, udi, matki, poppy, lentil etc pulses 211 per cent, 144 per cent of oilseeds such as linseed, sesame, sunflower mustard, groundnut, and others have been cultivated. Most sowing has been done in the Kolhapur division. Amravati and Konkan divisions are lagging.
The area under cotton is large in North Maharashtra, Marathwada, Varhad and Vidarbha. Due to damage due to heavy rains, the cotton in Shiwar has been exhausted in two-three pickings. Due to the availability of water, about six lakh hectares of cotton in this region will also come under rabi. So there will be good growth in the field of the rabbi.
Water availability is good throughout the state. An increase in rabi season sowing is seen in an attempt to compensate for the loss in Kharif. As a result of increased irrigation facilities and good rainfall, the area of rabi is likely to increase to 65 lakh hectares this year.
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