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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Warm winter worry for rabi produce -Dev Raj

Warm winter worry for rabi produce -Dev Raj

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published Published on Feb 3, 2016   modified Modified on Feb 3, 2016
-The Telegraph

Patna: The warm winter that took Bihar by surprise could hit the rabi crop hard with experts estimating an over 13 per cent drop in agriculture production during the season.

The fall in production, the experts fear, could lead to distress among farmers and also contribute to inflation in food grain, pulses and oilseeds.

"We are estimating production of around 52 lakh tonnes of wheat this rabi season in the state. The normal wheat production here is around 60 lakh tonnes. This is a decline of over 13 per cent and is due to a long spell of warm winter which has impacted the crop," agriculture production commissioner Vijoy Prakash told The Telegraph.

Prakash said an identical decline is expected in the production of pulses and oilseeds. "Officials are still to assess the full impact (of the warm winter) on these two varieties of crops," he added.

Prakash said that apart from the adverse winter, the drop in the production of pulses is also because of a crisis of seeds faced by farmers.

"The farmers faced difficulty in getting quality seeds of a variety of pulses in time for sowing. We are watching the situation," he added.

Wheat is currently being cultivated over 23.25 lakh hectares in the state and, along with rice, forms the staple diet of the nearly 11 crore population of Bihar. Its production was just 36 lakh tonnes during the previous rabi season, as the crop was badly damaged in several districts owing to a severe cyclonic storm on April 21 last year and a few hailstorms.

Pulses, including arhar, moong, masoor, gram and pea, and oilseeds, including mustard and flaxseed, are cultivated by farmers as cash crops. Any decline in production could negatively impact their financial condition.

Scientists have attributed the warm winter to El Nino, a phenomenon which refers the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked to a periodic warming in sea surface temperatures. This leads to warmer-than-average temperatures during winters.

B.P. Bhatt, the director of the Research Complex for Eastern Region (RCER) of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), said minimum temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees Celsius are more suitable for good growth of wheat after November 15.

"The rule is: lesser the temperature, better the growth of wheat. But we saw that the minimum temperatures regularly hovered around 16.5 to 17 degrees Celsius from November 15 onwards till mid-December. The only saving grace has been a brief spell of cold and fog in the second half of January this year, otherwise the wheat crop would have suffered more," Bhatt added.

ICAR-RCER scientist Abhay Singh said the warm winter led to premature flowering in wheat, which had a negative impact on growth.

The Telegraph, 2 February, 2016, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160203/jsp/frontpage/story_67220.jsp#.VrFsyVI1t_k


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