Sowing for Rabi crops have been completed in more than 9.5 lakh hectares so far in Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
This accounts to 51 percent of the target of 18.76 lakh hectares set by the Agriculture Department for the Rabi season. It includes food-grains, pulses, oil-seeds and vegetables, they stated. Agriculture Department officials stated that a target of 1.70 lakh hectares has been set for wheat and sowing of wheat in 70330 hectares has been done so far. Similarly target for paddy is 1.74 lakh hectares, for Maize is 70000 hectares, for Jau-Jwar is 5360 hectares. In total the target for food grains is 4.20 lakh hectares and sowing of food grains has been done in 85860 hectares so far.
They further said that Gram has been sown in 2.14 lakh hectares, Peas in 27790 hectares, Masoor in 16950 hectares, Moong in 12240 hectares, Urad in 19250 hectares, Tiura in 3.05 lakh hectares, Kulthi in 22320 hectares and other pulses in 6440 hectares. The farmers have completed sowing on 613775 hectares against the target of more than 9 lakh hectares.