Sowing for maize and soyabean crops have been completed by the farmers in Chhattisgarh during the ongoing Kharif season, informed an official press release issued here on Tuesday.
Overall , sowing had been completed in an estimated 44 lakh hectares for the Kharif season which is 92 per cent of the proposed cropping area. It had been proposed to carry out sowing in 48.25 lakh hectares in the current Kharif season wherein paddy had been sown in 95 per cent of the area. As regards other crops, pulses had been sown in 69 per cent of the area while oilseeds in 73 per cent.
Paddy had already been sown in an estimated 35 lakh hectares against the targetted 36.58 lakh hectares during the current Kharif season while maize had been sown in 2.26 lakh hectares against the proposed target of 2.25 lakh hectares.This apart, soyabean had been sown in the targetted 1,58 lakh hectares. The pulses crops had been down in 2.59 lakh hectares against a target of 3.75 lakh hectares in which ‘Arhar’ had been sown in 1.25 lakh hectares and Urad in 1.16 lakh hectares.
The sowing for vegetable and crops with fibre had been carried out in 91 per cent of the area which is 1.28 lakh hectares against the proposed target of 1.40 lakh hectares.