MYSURU: Deficit rain from the pre-monsoon year – April and May – has experienced a catastrophic effect on the farming of cotton, and this will be among the major industrial plants in Mysuru, at the area.
While the industrial harvest is usually cultivated across about 47,000 hectares at Mysuru district, this amount dropped by over half of 2021, together with farmers sowing cotton just over 25,340 hectares.
Back in Mysuru, sowing action for kharif season picks up speed in April, and also pre-monsoon showers offer a much-needed fillip for farmers.
Together with rain playing truant for the majority of April and May, sowing action, not only for cotton harvest, across the plank seen a marked decrease in comparison to previous decades.
Even though the agriculture department had set up a goal for almost four lakh hectares to be sowed to the kharif cropsfarmers, dismayed over the lack of rain in April and May, have managed to plant their own crops less than 2 lakh hectares.
Against its usual quota of 61.9millimeter rain to the month of April, Mysuru district captured just 35.9millimeter rain at 2021.
Officials at the agriculture division pointed out that April has been the ideal time from the year to sow cotton harvest.
Sources stated that, as well as farmers participated in the farming of cotton, people who increase black gram, groundnut, pulses and oil seeds, as too had endured as a consequence of deficit rainfall in the weeks preceding the beginning of the monsoon.
Joint manager of the department of agriculture Mahanteshappa confessed to this the area under cultivation for cotton had stumbled upon Mysuru district at 2021.
“Many farmers participated in the cultivation of cotton in HD Kote, Periyapatna, Hunsur and Nanjangud taluks have changed to ragi and jowar.
They’re worried about fostering cotton lest their harvest be put on by fleas as well as also the fear of this very low return, which is very probable given the delay in sowing action.
I’ve assured that fertilisers, seeds, et al, are carried in sufficient number, all which have been distributed to farmers throughout the Raitha Samparka Kendra.
We’re convinced of farmers finishing sowing throughout the four lakh hectares of land from the end of June,” he added.