Sowing for paddy crops have been achieved in much larger area than the proposed acerage for the ongoing Kharif season, informed Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal here on Tuesday.
Paddy has been sown on 36.93 lakh hectares against the target of 36.42 lakh hectares set by the State government, the Minister said.
He said that in the total 46.51 lakh hectares of Kharif crops the pulses, oilseeds, fibrous crops and vegetables have also been sown with the cereal crops. This includes 3,97,0970 hectares of cereal crops, pulse crops in over three lakh hectares, oilseed crops in 254960 hectares and 1,16,780 hectares of fibrous crops and vegetables.
He said that ‘Arhar’ has been sown in 131000 hectares, ‘Urad’ in 145620 hectares and ‘Moong’ in 20000 hectares of land besides ‘Kulthi’ in 11730 hectares. Among the Oilseeds crops, Soybean has been sown in 1,47,000 hectares, Peanut in 52,000 hectares, ‘Til’ in 33000 hectares and ‘Ramtil’ in 23410 hectares besides Sunflower and ‘Arandi’ in crops spread over 220 hectares.
The fibrous crops and vegetables have been sown on 1,16,780 hectares, added Agrawal.