India’s kharif crop sowing is progressing steadily, with farmers planting crops across 1,096.65 lakh hectares so far, as against 1,072.94 lakh hectares from last year. On a yearly basis, the kharif ...
At 109.66 million hectare, kharif sowing of paddy, pulses, oilseeds, coarse cereals, cotton and sugarcane was up 2.2% on year, according to data released by the agriculture ministry as on3.