Cotton sowing crosses 50 lakh acres in Telangana

With the Point out recording copious monsoon rains, farmers in Telangana have accomplished cotton sowing on more than fifty lakh acres.

The Point out qualified an location of sixty lakh acres to be beneath cotton this kharif year as it commenced the regulated cropping system.

As sowings are in complete swing, farmers and officials of the Agriculture Department are self-confident that the remaining ten lakh acres would be coated in the subsequent several months.

The thrust by the Point out federal government for selected crops mirrored in the quantities. The Point out recorded fifty.14 lakh acres in cotton sowing as versus 34.66 lakh acres the exact day very last 12 months.

“The kharif year is progressing nicely as for each the government’s new regulated cropping system,” B Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner of Agriculture, Govt of Telangana, informed BusinessLine.

Rainfall

As monsoon progressing nicely, the Point out has so considerably gained 318.6 mm of rain as versus the year normal of 236.3 mm, displaying an improve of 35 for each cent.

Less than the new crop regulation system, the federal government has questioned the farmers not to expand maize this year. Even so, the farmers sowed the cereal on about one.twenty five lakh acres as versus the year normal of about five lakh acres.

The Point out Authorities has refused Rythu Bandhu benefits (₹5,000 every single in the two seasons for just about every acre a farmer owns) to those who violated the regulated areas.

“Farmers may well have gone for maize in some areas to meet the contractual obligations with poultry and other industries,” a farmers’ union chief has reported.

“The Point out purchased maize in extra to the normal stages. We have questioned the farmers not to go for maize as the Point out is saddled with piled-up shares from very last 12 months. They can expand it in the Rabi year,” a Authorities official reported.

Paddy sowing, far too, are in complete swing in the Point out. At 3.ninety seven lakh acres, paddy sowing overtook very last year’s 3.ninety seven lakh acres.