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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India set for record kharif crop harvest

India set for record kharif crop harvest

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published Published on Aug 7, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 7, 2017
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New Delhi: Foodgrain output in the ongoing 2017-18 kharif season is likely to surpass last year’s record of 138.04 million tonnes due to higher acreage and a good monsoon for the second straight year, Agriculture Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak said today.

So far, more than 80 per cent of the sowing of kharif crops — paddy, pulses, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute — has been completed and planting will continue in some parts till next month, Pattanayak told PTI in an interview.

About 19 lakh hectares of crop area has been affected by floods across the country and farmers are likely to take up other kharif crops once the water recedes, he said, expressing concern about poor rains in some parts of Karnataka.

“I am certain overall kharif foodgrain output will be more than last year,” he said.

While there were floods in some states, there was a drought-like situation in parts of Karnataka, he said, adding that there has still been close to 3 per cent jump in the acreage under kharif crops so far.

Pattanayak said farmers in flood-hit areas will replant other crops in 19 lakh hectare once water recedes, but the situation in Karnataka has not yet improved.

“South interior Karnataka continues to be problematic, but some rains had come, let’s see,” he said.

Till last week, farmers had sown kharif crops in 878.23 lakh hectares as against 855.85 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s latest data.

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The Hindu Business Line, 6 August, 2017, http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/india-set-for-record-kharif-crop-harvest/article9804620.ece?homepage=true


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