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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kharif Outlook: Farmers may opt for soyabean, groundnut instead of cotton

Kharif Outlook: Farmers may opt for soyabean, groundnut instead of cotton

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published Published on Jun 3, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 4, 2021

-The Hindu Business Line

Question over pulses acreage linger; MSP, rainfall could decide growers crop choice

“I will cultivate soyabean this year. Prices for it are ruling at over 7,000 a quintal and I will go for it,” says Sunil Mukhati, a farmer near Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

“But it is not the case with all my co-farmers. Some of them plan to grow corn and some pulses (moong or green gram),” he says, adding “their soyabean crop was affected last year by rain and fungal attack”.

Jagdishbhai Patel, a farmer from Morbi district in Gujarat, is reducing his cotton cultivation area by half. He will sow groundnut seeds on the other half of the area he used for cotton last year.

“For the last two years, I have been growing cotton on almost the entire 20 acres I own. But we are fed up of the pink bollworm issue in cotton so this year, I will have groundnut on half of my land,” says Patel.

“Farmers in the Sangli area in Maharashtra could shift to soyabean from turmeric since the bean prices are very good now. We see an increase in soyabean area that could be at the cost of turmeric,” says Sunil Patel, a turmeric supplier from Sangli.

“We are seeing many farmers buying Basmati paddy seeds in our area. Preparations are on to grow paddy and shift from sugarcane in these parts of Punjab,” says Amritsar-based Suresh Singh Chauhan, General Manager - Agri-Business, AMDD Foods Pvt Ltd in Punjab.

This year, factors such as prices realised by farmers during the previous cropping season, timely arrival of rainfall, declaration of minimum support price (MSP) and the availability of inputs such as seeds among other factors will play a role in deciding the Kharif cropping pattern.

The Agriculture Ministry has taken steps to promote planting of pulses and oilseeds crops more than ever before this year. For this, the Agriculture Ministry has embarked on an ambitious plan to distribute seed kits of high-yielding crops of pulses and oilseeds free of cost to farmers in many States. It also has a similar plan for expanding the coverage of oilseeds.

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The Hindu Business Line, 3 June, 2021, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/kharif-outlook-farmers-may-opt-for-soyabean-groundnut-instead-of-cotton/article34719474.ece?homepage=true


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