The ongoing Rabi sowing exercise by farmers in Chhattisgarh has met 87 per cent of the overall sowing target so far for the season, officials informed.
The farmers have completed sowing in 16.80 lakh hectares of land against the target of 18.30 lakh hectares for the ongoing Rabi season, Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal informed in a statement issued here on Tuesday.
He said that sowing for pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane and vegetables crops had been underway apart from paddy.
The Department had determined 4.70 lakh hectares of land for sowing paddy, wheat, maize, cornstalk (jowar) etc for the current Rabi season.
Agrawal said the farmers also sow oilseeds during Rabi season in Chhattisgarh.
He said that the Department has determined 9.13 lakh hectares for sowing pulses in the current Rabi season and sowing had been completed for the same in 8.50 lakh hectares.