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Alarm bells ring as paddy sowing down 25%, oilseeds 50%

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    • Ravish Tiwari , Amitabh Sinha Tags : Deficient rainfall, monsoon, oilseeds, paddy, kharif crops Posted: Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 at 0910 hrs

    According to data for paddy released yesterday, only about 38.14 lakh hectares (ha) had been sown as compared to 51.80 lakh hectares last year. The decline is most visible in major rice-growing regions of Haryana (-1.15 lakh ha), Orissa (-2.44 lakh ha), Punjab (-7.02 lakh ha) and Uttar Pradesh (-2.05 lakh ha).

    As against sowing of about 68.76 lakh hectares of oilseeds by this time last year, total oilseeds sowing so far has been completed in only about 35.58 lakh hectares. The hardest hit have been soybean (a decline of 29.39 lakh hectares) and groundnut (decline of 12.20 lakh hectares). Most affected are Madhya Pradesh (soybean) and groundnut in Gujarat.

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    enquiryBy: pravesh amin | 09-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Will this affect the future prices of oil? If yes till when it is predicted?
    Grim Kharif SituationBy: birendra singh | 08-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward The situation is much grimmer on the ground than reported in the medias. The poor monsoon has already alarmed a large section of our farmers to look to other methods to be adopted for their survival. Trillions of rupees being spent on th name of farmers and rural poors are on paper only. Hardly 10% reaches to the needy and rest are looted by the middlemen and beuracrats who are close to our politicians so when it comes to fighting any natural calamity we are found wanting.
    Not to worryBy: Pankaj Verma | 08-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward As per the Union Agriculture Minister's last week's statement, there are ample food grain stocks and there is absolute no cause to worry. According to him, the main sowing season starts in July.Everything else that is being reported by media is false.Jai Ho!
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