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Kharif sowing begins as monsoon finally hits north, central India -Jayashree Bhosale

-The Economic Times

PUNE: After a delay of eight days, the monsoons have finally hit most parts of Maharashtra and central India. With this, sowing of kharif crops like paddy, cotton, maize, oilseeds and pulses, is expected to gather pace.

Sowing is expected to peak by the last week of June and first week of July. After hovering over Karnataka coast around June 10-18, the monsoons have covered most parts of Maharashtra and is expected to cover south Gujarat, parts of Madhya Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the next 48 hours. "There will be better rainfall during the next 15 days over central India," DS Pai, director (long range forecast), IMD, has said. As of June 17, kharif sowing was completed on 84.21 lakh hectares, which is 10% less than last year.

Rice was sown on 9.17 lakh hectare, pulses on 3.32 lakh hectares, coarse cereals on 6.01 lakh hectares and oilseeds on 1.88 lakh hectares. N Chattopadhyay, deputy director general (Agrimet), IMD, said, "Nursery sowing operations have started in Andhra, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. We have also advised farmers in Maharashtra to begin sowing of cotton and soyabean." AK Nayak, acting director, Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttak, said, "monsoon has covered most of Odisha.

Though it is not strong, it is sufficient for nursery sowing and direct sowing, which have started." Karnataka has completed kharif sowing on 17% of its kharif area, with farmers sowing cotton, maize and red and green grams. "Cotton sowing is over in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. It has just started in Vidarbha and Telangana and is yet to begin in Karnataka," said Keshav Kranthi, Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagpur. Seed companies say farmers began seed purchase late this year.