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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers cultivating pulses in big way

Farmers cultivating pulses in big way

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published Published on Jul 26, 2016   modified Modified on Jul 26, 2016
-Deccan Herald

Buoyed by the incentives announced by the government, farmers appear to have taken up cultivation of pulses in a big way this year.

New Delhi: According to the data released by the Agriculture Ministry, pulses acreage has increased 39% as compared to the same period last year.

Sowing of coarse cereals and oil seeds has also increased but acreage of sugar cane and cotton has declined.

The area under pulses cultivation was 90.17 lakh hectares as of Friday, which was 39% more than the 64.69 lakh hectares in the period a year ago.

The Centre has increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of pulses by Rs 425 per quintal. In addition, the Centre has also set up a committee to examine whether the MSP could be increased further for pulses.

The area under pulses has increased sharply by 87% in Karnataka to 14.09 lakh hectare as of Friday, from 7.53 lakh hectare when compared to the year-ago period.

However, cotton acreage was down to 86.86 lakh hectares on Friday as against the 99.52 lakh hectares for the same period last year.

Recession in global markets last year had led to a crash in cotton prices, prompting farmers to look for alternatives.

According to the agriculture ministry, 65% of the total 1,062 lakh hectares of kharif farmland has been brought under cultivation by farmers. Of the 692.98 lakh hectares of farm area under cultivations, paddy has been sown on 183.06 lakh hectares, marginally up from 182.38 lakh hectare in the year-ago period.

Acreage of coarse cereals has also increased slightly by 3.46% to 131 lakh hectares from 126.27 lakh hectare, while the area under oilseeds has gone up by 4% to 149.16 lakh hectare from 143 lakh hectare in the said period.

Sugar cane acreage low

In case of cash crops, the acreage of sugar cane and jute remained lower than last year’s period. Sugar cane area is lower at 45.41 lakh hectares from 47.40 lakh hectare in the said period, the data showed.

The country produced around 252 million tonnes of foodgrains in 2015-16 and 2014-15 crop years (July-June) on account of two consecutive drought years. The government is targeting a record production of 270 million tonnes in the current 2016-17 crop year on hopes of better rains.


Deccan Herald, 24 July, 2016, http://www.deccanherald.com/content/559790/farmers-cultivating-pulses-big-way.html


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