The recent rainfall has expedited the sowing for Kharif crops in Chhattisgarh which has been done in more than 23 lakh hectares of land so far. However, this is less than half of the target set for the crops in the Kharif season.
Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal said that sowing for grains, pulses and oilseeds crops has been done on 23. 41 lakh hectares of land in the State till Monday. This is 49 per cent of the target of 48.12 lakh hectares of sowing set for the Kharif season.He said that paddy, maize, arhar, urad, kulthi, groundnut, soybean, ramtil, sunflower, arandi, etc are sowed during kharif season in the State.
Agrawal said that in Raipur district the sowing of crops in 1.0 8 lakh hectare area has been done. Similarly sowing has been done on 181470 hectares in Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara, 74930 hectares in Gariaband, 144630 hectares in Mahasamund, 18500 hectares in Dhamtari, 99380 hectares in Durg, 106480 hectares in Balod, 173480 hectares in Bemetra, 244640 hectares in Rajnandgaon, 118990 hectares in Kabirdham, 95890 hectares in Bilaspur, 75920 hectares in Mungeli,184870 hectares in Janjgir-Champa, 55160 hectares in Korba, 180480 hectares in Raigarh, 30970 hectares in Sarguja, 23770 hectares in Surajpur, 11500 hectares in Balrampur-Ramanujganj, 97150 hectares in Jashpur, 43340 hectares in Koriya, 70400 hectares in Jagdalpur, 59890 in Kondagaon, 13250 hectares in Narayanpur, 42660 hectares in Dantewada, 39810 hectares in Sukma, 11200 hectares in Bijapur and 26410 hectares in Kanker district.