Sowing activity by farmers for Kharif season crops is in full swing across Chhattisgarh with 76 per cent of the total proposed area covered by them so far during the current spell of monsoons.
The farmers had completed sowing in more than three fourths of the total land under cultivation for various Kharif season crops, an official statement informed here on Tuesday. Paddy had been sown in 80 per cent of total targetted area while 92 per cent sowing for Maize had been completed with 98 per cent sowing achieved for the Soyabean crop. Eighty per cent of the sowing had been achieved for food grain crops while in case of pulses it is 50 per cent and Oilseeds (66 per cent).
The target for sowing paddy had been fixed at 36.58 lakh hectares in which sowing had already been completed in 29.39 lakh hectares while the target for Maize crop sowing had been set at 2.25 lakh hectares out of which sowing had already been completed in 2.07 lakh hectares. The target for sowing soyaben had been proposed at 1.58 lakh hectares while sowing had already been completed in 1.55 lakh hectares.