The area under wheat has increased slightly to 341.13 lakh hectares so far this rabi season.
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This information has been given in the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture. Sowing of wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, began in October. Maize, jowar, gram and mustard are other major rabi crops. The harvesting of these crops will start in March/April next year.
So far in the current rabi season of crop year 2022-23 (July-June), the area under wheat has marginally increased to 341.13 lakh hectare. This information has been given in the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture. Sowing of wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, began in October. Maize, jowar, gram and mustard are other major rabi crops. The harvesting of these crops will start in March/April next year. As per the latest data, the area under wheat sowing has increased to 341.13 lakh hectare till January 20 in the current rabi season of 2022-23 crop year, from 339.87 lakh hectare during the same period last year.
The higher area under sowing is mainly in Rajasthan (2.52 lakh hectare), Bihar (1.49 lakh hectare), Maharashtra (0.92 lakh hectare), Chhattisgarh (0.54 lakh hectare), Gujarat (0.48 lakh hectare) and Uttar Pradesh (0.22 lakh hectare). Is. According to the data, less area under wheat sowing is mainly in Madhya Pradesh (4.15 lakh hectare), Jharkhand (0.34 lakh hectare), Punjab (0.18 lakh hectare), Himachal Pradesh (0.10 lakh hectare) and Haryana (0.10 lakh hectare).
As per the sowing data, the area under paddy has also increased to 31.54 lakh hectare as compared to 23.64 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. Similarly, the area under pulses has increased marginally to 164.12 lakh hectare as against 163.7 lakh hectare. The area under coarse and nutritious cereals has increased marginally from 49.36 lakh hectare to 51.46 lakh hectare.
The data shows that in case of oilseeds, the total area under various oilseeds has increased to 108.11 lakh hectare in this rabi season so far from 100.44 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. In this, the area under rapeseed-mustard has increased from 90.18 lakh hectare to 97.1 lakh hectare. In the current rabi season till January 20, the total area under cultivation of all types of rabi crops is 696.35 lakh hectare, which was 676.97 lakh hectare a year ago.
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