Haryana this Kharif season has planned to cultivate crops over an area of more than 18.51 lakh hectares, with a target foodgrain production of about 52.33 lakh tonnes. Out of the 18.51 lakh hectares, 12 lakh hectares of area would be brought under paddy to achieve production of 41.40 lakh tonnes, said Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar on Tuesday.
He said that the other foodgrain crops produced during Kharif season are jawar, maize, bajra and pulses. Giving details, Dhankar said that jawar would be cultivated over an area of 70,000 hectares to achieve the production target of 42,000 tonnes, maize over an area of 20,000 hectares to produce 56,000 tonnes. Similarly, bajra would be cultivated over 5.10 lakh hectares to produce over 9.44 lakh tonnes and pulses over 51,000 hectares to produce 51,000 tonnes.
The Minister said that maximum paddy crop over 1.69 lakh hectares would be cultivated in district Hisar followed by Kaithal where 1.54 lakh hectares area would be covered. Similarly, highest bajra crop would be cultivated over 1.10 lakh hectares of land in Bhiwani followed by Mahendragarh, where it would be cultivated over one lakh hectares of land.
He said that maximum 18,000 hectares of land would be brought under jawar cultivation in Rohtak and 17,000 hectares would be covered in district Jhajjar. In case of pulses, Hisar would cover highest area of 8,000 hectares followed by Rohtak with 7,000 hectares of land. The maximum area of 8,000 hectares would be brought under maize crop in Panchkula followed by Yamunanagar and Ambala districts with 2,000 hectares each, added the Minister.