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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Gulbarga farmers’ hopes rest on red gram -TV Sivanandan

Gulbarga farmers’ hopes rest on red gram -TV Sivanandan

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published Published on Jul 4, 2014   modified Modified on Jul 4, 2014
-The Hindu


They lost chance to cultivate short-duration cash crops due to delayed monsoon

Gulbarga (Karnataka): The hopes of Gulbarga farmers, who have lost the chance to cultivate short-duration cash crops such as green gram, black gram and sesamum owing to the inordinate delay in the onset of monsoon, now rest on red gram, the mainstay of growers in the district.

Farmers have been deprived of the opportunity to cultivate black gram on nearly 35,000 hectares of land, green gram on around 16,000 hectares and sesamum on over 7,200 hectares in the district. Black gram sown in 3,932 hectares, green gram in 4,022 hectares, and sesamum sown in 200 hectares have either failed to germinate or the germinated crops are withering due to lack of moisture.

Alternatives

Sources in the Agriculture Department told The Hindu here on Wednesday that such farmers would now shift to red gram, sunflower or soya bean.

Farmers have time till the first week of August to take up red gram sowing. If the predictions of the India Meteorological Department turns out to be true, there would be scattered to fairly widespread heavy rain in the first and second weeks of July, and the area under red gram would go up from 3.62 lakh hectares to over 4 lakh hectares, sources said.

They said that sowing had been completed in less than 11 per cent of the total 5.7 lakh hectares in the kharif season. So far, sowing had been completed in 61,926 hectares, including 25,561 hectares covering commercial crops such as sugarcane and cotton in the irrigated belt.

Pulses have been sown in 23,497 hectares and cereals in 2,388 hectares. Among pulses, red gram dominates the scene and has been sowing in 15,543 hectares, followed by 4,022 hectares of green gram and 3,932 hectares of black gram. Among oilseeds, soya bean has been sown in 7,750 hectares against the target of 14,000 hectares and sunflower in 2,530 hectares against the target of 30,000 hectares.

Pre-monsoon showers

Although the district experienced good pre-monsoon showers, the delay in the onset of monsoon in June hit the farmers' hopes hard. Against the normal rainfall of 113.3 mm during the crucial month of June, the district received only 47.8 mm rainfall.

The shortfall of rainfall has been uniform in the seven taluks. Even in taluks such as Chincholi and Sedam, which usually receive good rain, the shortfall in high this year.


The Hindu, 2 July, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/gulbarga-farmers-hopes-rest-on-red-gram/article6170818.ece


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