Chhattisgarh Government's Agriculture department has set the target to ensure sowing of food crops, pulses and oilseed crops on an area of nearly 48.10 lakh hectares land in kharif season, an official press statement informed on Monday.
Department has made all the arrangements to distribute fertilisers-seeds to farmers for achieving the target.
Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal informed that crops like paddy, corn, barley, kodo-kutki and others would be sown on 39 lakh 41 thousand hectare area in kharif season 2016.
Farmers are gearing up to sow pulses in nearly 3 lakh 88 thousand hectares, and oilseeds crop in three lakh 37 thousand 820 hectare area. Agrawal informed that arhar, moong, urad and kulthi are major pulses crops and peanut, til, soyabean, sunflower etc are the major oilseeds crop of Chhattisgarh.
Agriculture Minister Agrawal informed that till June 2, two lakh 24 thousand 348 metric ton fertilisers have been distributed to farmers for kharif crops.
He told that in Chhattisgarh, farmers have been provided fertilisers mostly through primary cooperative credit societies. Till June 2, one lakh one thousand 730 metric tons of Urea, 24 thousand 2887 metric tons of superphosphate, 16 thousand 845 metric tons of potash, 70 thousand 83 metric tons of DAP and 11 thousand 403 metric tons of NPK has been distributed.