hectares so far, mainly due to an increase in acreage of oilseeds crop.In the year-ago period, the

The area under paddy stood at 36.07 million hectares during the week ended August 18 as sowing of several other crops neared their end in kharif 2023.... The worrying factor is that with monsoon weakening in several key areas, water level in the 146 reservoirs monitored by the government has started falling.... Data sourced from Central Water Commission( CWC) showed that during the week ended August 17, water levels in the 146 reservoirs were 111. 285 billion cubic meters( BCM)....

This means a 43-point week like in 2013 might not be in the cards right now, ensuring the overall pace stays slow. Analysts were shocked on March 31 when USDA revealed US farmers would reduce their corn plantings by 4% from last year to 89.5 million acres.... Final corn plantings in those four years were at least 2% lower than what had been reported in March. The slowest May 8 planting pace where corn acres still rose from March to final was 44% in 2009.... The views expressed here are the wri

Sowing of Kharif crops further picked up and touched almost 2020 levels during the week ended August 13.... However, concerns remained over the final output because of delay in the planting of some crops, which have crossed their ideal sowing time. According to latest data from the department of agriculture, till August 13, Kharif crops have been planted in around 99.7 million hectares, which is just 1.78 per cent less than the same period last year.... It is 2.08 per cent more than the averag

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has launched the seventh bid round under the Open Acreage

this year’s production at 3.9m tones against a target of 4m ton, but acreage has increased....

, through enhanced acreage and better farming techniques as over 20, 000 agriculture students have been

has covered around 60 per cent of the season's average acreage under this major crop.... Paddy, a

of Agriculture on Friday.... Tur, urad and moong acreage, too, remained lower.... Paddy is the main

first time the group ruled Afghanistan, it prohibited poppy cultivation in 2000, reducing acreage