.1 min read through Final Improved: Aug 28 2024|12:07 AM IST.The area under kharif further strengthened during the week ended August 23 as sowing was almost comprehensive in most crops. Records revealed that till August 23, kharif crops have been actually planted in around 106.5 million hectares– nearly 2 per-cent much more than the location covered throughout the same period in 2015 but 2.81 per cent lower than the usual land area (which is actually the standard of the final five years). The bright side is that the regions under arhar, peanut, soy bean, as well as cotton are greater than their five-year standard.
Nevertheless, all eyes will certainly perform the weather in the following handful of full weeks as excess rainfalls in September can swamp areas and create lodging which is bad for the last return. Till August 27, the South west monsoon has been actually 7 per cent more than ordinary along with Central and also Southern India tape-recording rainfalls which were more than 17 per cent surplus so far in the time. With La Nina embeding in, the rainfalls might even the score more powerful.
First Published: Aug 28 2024|12:07 AM IST.