Chhattisgarh is seeing a brisk agricultural activity with the prospect of an even better rainfall during the coming days across the State. The farmers have now got busy in the cultivation of paddy, the main crop of kharif season. In such areas where water had been supplied from dams for last the Rabi crops, sowing of paddy has almost been completed, officials informed.
Sowing of other crops of the season such as maize, jwar, arhar, moong, udad, groundnut, til, soyabean, ramtil, sunflower and arandi is going on at a fast pace. The Agriculture department has set a target of sowing of kharif crops in about 48.12 lakh hectare area. Against this target, sowing of different crops at about 31,61,950 hectare area has been completed, which is 66 per cent of the target. Paddy has so far been sown in 25.70 lakh hectare.
Officers in Directorate of Agriculture here on Monday informed that Kharif crop have been sown in 1,24,010 hectare in Raipur district, 2,520 hectare in Balodabazar-Bhatapara, 1,02,480 hectare in Gariaband, 2,17,080 hectare in Mahasamund, 45,280 hectare in Dhamtari, 1,20,720 hectare in Durg, 1,65,040 hectare in Balod, 1,86,160 hectare in Bemetara, 2,86,120 hectare in Rajnandgaon, 1,30,610 hectare in Kabirdham, 1,37,250 hectare in Bilaspur, 95,800 hectares in Mungeli, 1,96,600 hectare in Janjgir-Champa, 75,970 hectare in Korba, 2,35,390 hectare in Raigarh, 57,440 hectare in Sarguja, 52,990 in Surajpur, 52,820 hectare in Balarampur-Ramanujganj, 1,42,060 hectare in Jashpur, 64,350 hectare in Korea, 1,11,870 hectare in Jagadalpur, 93,440 hectare in Kondagaon, 29,580 hectare in Narayanpur, 53,770 hectare in Dantewada, 37,960 hectare in Sukma, 37,960 hectare in Bijapur and 1,26,910 hectare in North Bastar (Kanker) district.