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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Production of kharif pulses seen surging 48% to 8.2 million tonnes -Vishwanath Kulkarni

Production of kharif pulses seen surging 48% to 8.2 million tonnes -Vishwanath Kulkarni

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published Published on Sep 14, 2016   modified Modified on Sep 14, 2016
-The Hindu Business Line

Govt also revises Rabi target upwards to 14.4 million tonnes

Bengaluru:
Higher acreage, driven by the rebound in monsoon rainfall this year, is seen lifting the country’s pulses production by about 48 per cent in the current kharif season to around 8.22 million tonnes (mt) against 5.54 mt produced in the corresponding season last year, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

Production of arhar or tur is seen up by around 51 per cent at 3.71 mt against 2.46 mt produced last kharif. Output of urad is expected to be around 1.82 mt — up 31 per cent from last season.

Similarly, the production of moong bean or green gram is expected to be higher by 43 per cent at 1.46 mt, while the output of other pulses including horse gram is almost double at 1.20 mt (0.67 mt).

Besides good rains, the higher market price during the planting season and the increase in support price announced by the Centre prompted farmers to increase the area under pulses this kharif by 30 per cent to 143.95 lakh hectares as against last year’s 111.48 lakh hectares.

The kharif pulses production estimates of the Agriculture Ministry are part of the background note of the Rabi Campaign, which will be finalised later this week at the National Conference on Agriculture in New Delhi.

Rabi hopes

Buoyed by the widespread monsoon rains across the country, the Centre has revised upwards the production target for pulses in the forthcoming rabi and summer planting season to 14.41 mt — up 7 per cent from the earlier 13.5 mt. Rabi or winter season plantings account for close to two thirds of the pulses produced in the country.

An action plan to take advantage of the high residual soil moisture to bring an additional 1.26 million hectares under rabi and summer pulses such as gram (chana) and lentil will be discussed at the Rabi Campaign.

“It is expected that there will be a possibility of more residual moisture for sowing of rabi pulses. In addition to the availability of critical inputs like quality seed, bio-fertilizers and technology, back-up by different agencies will ensure better coverage of the area under rabi and summer pulses. In this context, the production target of rabi and summer pulses for 2016-17 have been enhanced from 13.50 mt to 14.41 mt,” a background note for the Rabi Campaign said.

This (revision in production targets) is even as the Centre on Monday decided to enhance buffer stocks for pulses to around 2 million tonnes, which will be built through both domestic procurement and imports of 10 lakh tonnes each.

As arrivals of kharif moong have commenced in Karnataka and Maharashtra and prices rule below the support-price levels, the Centre has begun procurement through agencies such as Nafed and FCI.

Cumulative rainfall during the South-West monsoon so far, has been 5 per cent lower than normal at 760 mm as against the normal of 802 mm. To achieve the increased targets, an additional area of 12.6 lakh hectares over the normal area has to be brought under pulses during the rabi and summer seasons.

The Agriculture Ministry is targeting an additional area of 3.89 lakh hectares (lh) in Madhya Pradesh to increase the total area under rabi pulses in the State to 44.3 lh. In Rajasthan, an additional area of 1.58 lh is being targeted to increase rabi pulses acreage to 17.41 lh, followed by Maharashtra by 1.43 lh to 16.3 lh.

Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka are the other States where an additional area of over 1 lakh hectares each is expected to be brought under rabi pulses (to 16.3 lh and 11.89 lh, respectively).

The additional acreage is being targeted in rice fallows in West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Also, production will be encouraged through inter-cropping of gram and lentil with barley, mustard, linseed and the autumn-planted ratoon sugarcane.

The Hindu Business Line, 13 September, 2016, http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/production-of-kharif-pulses-seen-surging-48-to-82-million-tonnes/article9104396.ece?homepage=true


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