The sowing, transplanting of paddy and other farm activities have picked up in Chhattisgarh after much awaited rain greeted Raipur and other regions of the State.
Officials of the Agriculture department here said the sowing activities will pick up further momentum as they expect more rain in the coming days. The sowing of pulses and oilseeds will also pick up further. While small and marginal farmers have been carrying out sowing, bigger farmers have been carrying out paddy transplantation as they had raised healthy seedling using stored water.
The officials said sowing have been completed in forty per cent of the area under cultivation. There has been no report of seed loss by farmers so far. Farmers said if they get regular rain, the agricultural activities which were already delayed will get further momentum. According to the Meteorological Department office at lalpur most of the places in the State witnessed good rain on Sunday night. While Pankhajur in Bastar area recorded highest rain fall of 97 mm, Konta, Bade Rajpur, Katdhora of Raigarh recorded a rain fall of 65, 39.0, 63.2 mm respectively.
Similarly Kartala, Shivari Narayan in Baloda Bazar, Bodla of Rajnandgaon, Kawardha, Bilaigarh in Raipur, Raipur, recorded 63.2, 36.6, 80.2, 65.8, 57.0, 22.1 mm of rain respectively.