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Crops on 10.7 lakh hectares damaged in Maharashtra due to heavy rainedit
Times of India – Online
Standing crop damage in seven Vidarbha districts and two in Marathwada is the severest due to the heavy rain that lashed Maharashtra early this month for a prolonged period. Data compiled by the agriculture department on Wednesday (July 27) stated that over 10.7 lakh hectares of standing crops were damaged in the state. Of this, crops in over 5.7 lakh hectares were damaged in seven districts of Vidarbha and over 3.7 lakh hectares in two districts of Marathwada. The maximum crop damage spread over one lakh acre was reported from Nanded, Amravati, Yavatmal and wardha. Districts such as Sangli, Kolhapur, Washim, Ratnagiri and Thane reported least damage to the standing crops. Sangli reported crop ...
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Deficit In Paddy Coverage To Be Recovered With Monsoon Progressing Fast: Agri Commissioneredit
Business World – Online
Agriculture commissioner A K Singh has said there is a slight deficit in paddy coverage in the ongoing kharif season mainly in eastern India, but it will be recovered with monsoon progressing fast. In the southern region, paddy has been planted in a significant area buoyed by good and well-distributed rainfall. In Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh too, there is no cause of concern as of now as the sowing is normally undertaken much in advance with the help of tube well irrigation, he said. The government has not released the latest data of paddy sowing, but the data available till 17 July showed all-India paddy coverage to be down by 17.4 per cent ...
Shortfall in paddy sowing likely to be covered in kharif season: Narendra Singh Tomaredit
The Economic Times – Online
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday said there is a possibility of covering the shortfall in paddy sowing in the ongoing kharif season. As per the agriculture ministry’s latest data, area sown to paddy was down by 35.46 lakh hectare at 231.59 lakh hectare till June 29 of the ongoing kharif season, when compared to 267.05 lakh hectare in the year-ago period. The paddy sowing is down so far but there is a possibility to cover the shortfall, Tomar told PTI. The paddy coverage is reported to be down in West Bengal (by 10.62 lakh hectare), Uttar Pradesh (6.68 lakh hectare), Bihar (5.61 lakh hectare), Jharkhand (4.72 lakh hectare), Telangana (4.06 lakh ...