COMMODITY
Wheat acreage at 298.47 lakh hectare so far, close to last year's level
Feb-16-2019

Wheat acreage has been reported to have done in 298.47 lakh hectare so far in the ongoing rabi season, as against last year's 299.84 lakh hectare. While, planting of rice, pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds declined than the year-ago period.

Wheat, the main rabi crop, planting begins from October and harvesting from March-April .As per reports, wheat sowing is done in 99.13 lakh hectare in Uttar Pradesh, 59.11 lakh hectare in Madhya Pradesh, 35.02 lakh hectare in Punjab, 25.16 lakh hectare in Haryana and 22.56 lakh hectare in Bihar so far. Meanwhile, the pulses sowing about 156.30 lakh hectare was covered till February 14 of this season, lower than 166.11 lakh hectare a year ago.

Oilseeds acreage was at 80.40 lakh hectare so far this season, close to 80.98 lakh hectare in the year-ago season. Coarse cereals were covered in 48.69 lakh hectare as against 57.02 lakh hectare, while rice was sown in 33.96 lakh hectare when compared with 39.64 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. Total Rabi crops acreage was lagging behind at 617.83 lakh hectare so far this season when compared with 643.60 lakh hectare in the same period previous year.

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