Sowing as of December which accounts for ~81% of the total sowing in rabi season, was down 5.25% on-year to 476 lakh hectare compared with 502.5 lakh hectare in the previous rabi season.<\/p>\n
This is of concern, because the rabi crop accounts for ~40% of India\u2019s agricultural produce (based on key 14 crops which account for 97% of total agricultural produce except sugarcane and horticulture crops), in both volume and value terms.<\/p>\n
While all major crops have seen a decline in area sown, crops that account for ~5-7% of total rabi production have shown an increase and wheat that contributes over 65% to total rabi production has remained flat. Coarse cereals have seen a sharp decline of ~20.4% on-year, with the maximum shortfall being in Maharashtra and Karnataka.<\/p>\n
Unless the sowing situation improves in the next few weeks, there could be a trickle-down effect on the sectors being driven by rural India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sowing as of December which accounts for ~81% of the total sowing in rabi season, was down 5.25% on-year to 476 lakh hectare compared with 502.5 lakh hectare in the previous rabi season. This is of concern, because the rabi crop accounts for ~40% of India\u2019s agricultural produce (based on key 14 crops which account […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2913,1219,1217,2912],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-politics","tag-indias-agricultural-produce","tag-karnataka","tag-maharashtra","tag-rabi-season"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n