With monsoon remaining firm in most parts of the State, sowing of paddy and other crops have taken place in an estimated 32 lakh hectares in the current Kharif season so far in Chhattisgarh.
The current level of sowing at 32 lakh hectares is 66 per cent of the overall sowing target set by the State Government for the current Kharif season. The overall sowing target for the current Kharif season had been fixed at 48.25 lakh hectares in which sowing of paddy had been completed in 70 per cent of the area while Maize crop had been sown in 88 per cent of the land and Soyabean in 93 per cent of the area in the State.
The target for sowing paddy had been fixed at 36.58 lakh hectares in which sowing had already been done in 25.51 lakh hectares while the target for Maize crop sowing had been set at 2.25 lakh hectares out of which sowing had already been comlated in 1.98 lakh hectares. The target for sowing Soyaben had been proposed at 1.58 lakh hectares while sowing had already been completed in 1.47 lakh hectares. The sowing for pulses crops had so far been achieved in 1.30 lakh hectares in which Arhar (Pigeon pea) had been sown in 68,000 hectares and Urad in 50,000 hectares. Sowing had been completed in 67 per cent of the cropping area for vegetables and fibrous crops with the sowing target set at 1.40 lakh hectares out of which sowing had been completed in 93,000 hectares.