New Delhi: Farmers have planted 49.9 million hectares (123 million hectares) with summer plants, down 10.43% from the previous year, according to the welfare of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers, such as rainy season after a strong start last month.
Farmers usually begin to plant summer seduced plants on June 1, when the rain of monsoons usually reach India.
Planting then continued until early August.
Planting rice, main summer plants, is at 11.5 million hectares on July 9 versus 12.6 million hectares in the previous year, the ministry said.
The area planted with cotton was at 8.6 million hectares versus 10.5 million hectares of the previous year.
Planting overall grain oil, including soybeans – main summum oil harvest – is at 11.2 million hectares, down from 12.6 million hectares of the previous year.
Sowing soybean is 8.2 million hectares of 9.2 million hectares last year.
India is the largest buyer of cooking oil in the world.
Sugar cane sowing in the second largest sugar producer in the world almost unchanged at 5.3 million hectares.
Farmers planted protein pulse at 5.2 million hectares with 5.3 million hectares in the previous year.
These numbers are temporary and subject to revisions during the rainy season in September.
India, one of the world’s top agricultural producers, has received 5% below the average rainfall since June 1, when the four-month rainy season began.
The monsoon rain is 46% below the average in the week until July 7.
The government-run weather office defines the average, or normal, rainfall because between 96% and 104% of the average 50-year 88 cm for the entire season.
Rain of Monsun, which turned into a magic patch on the tip of June, will take this weekend, India’s top weather officials told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
Nearly half of Indian agricultural land has no irrigation and depends on the rain of monsoons that accounts for 70% -90% annual rainfall.
Agriculture contributes nearly 15% to the economy of $ 2.7 trillion in India.