The rabi, or winter crop, sowing is likely to be about 2 per cent higher this year than in the previous marketing year, according to a report. Sowing for the rabi crop season had already covered 348 lakh hectare (ha) by November 27, which is 4 per cent more than in the whole of the previous season, and 2 per cent above the average of the past five years, Crisil Ratings said in a report.