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Maharashtra tur mess casts doubts on yield estimates -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

-Livemint.com

While one estimate pegged Maharashtra’s tur production at 1.17 million tonnes, another forecast a record yield of 2.35 million tonnes

Mumbai:
Maharashtra’s economic survey of 2016-17, which came out on 17 March, pegged the state’s total tur (pigeon pea) yield at 1.17 million tonnes, based on estimates of the Pune-based agriculture commissionerate. A fortnight later, the state’s agriculture department put out revised estimates showing the March projection of tur yield was way off the mark. The department said Maharashtra will have a tur yield of a record 2.35 million tonnes, slightly more than double the March estimate.

This wide variation between the two estimates made in a span of just 15 days is largely responsible for the mismanagement of tur procurement in Maharashtra, experts and farm activists say. The estimates also raise questions about the very methodology used to map sowing operations and make projections about the area under cultivation of different crops and their estimated yield.

Currently, states use Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE) to estimate yields of farm produce, as prescribed by Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), according to IASRI director U.C. Sud.

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