India’s rabi acreages to date stood at 476.12 lakh hectares, down five.2 in step with cent from remaining year, in step with modern facts from the Agriculture Ministry. In the first week of December, the distance in acreages stood at over eight in keeping with cent.

The acreages below key iciness plants, which includes wheat and rapeseed-mustard, are marginally higher than the corresponding final yr’s stages, even as sowing of gram, a key pulses crop for the season has been lower by round 13 consistent with cent.

Poor soil moisture tiers, due to beneath normal south west monsoon and lower water levels in key reservoirs, are seen having an effect on the progress of rabi crop sowing.

Wheat has been planted in greater than two thirds of the ordinary region, with main producing states along with Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh reporting an increase in acreages over corresponding ultimate 12 months. UP has visible an boom of four lakh ha, standing at seventy six.70 lakh ha over remaining year, even as in MP the acreages are up by 8 lakh ha to forty four.57 lakh ha. However, states inclusive of Bihar, Gujarat and Maharashtra, which can be facing water pressure, have said a decline in wheat acreages.

Total area under rapeseed-mustard has registered an increase of round 4 in step with cent especially resulting from increase in sowing inside the key generating states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In Haryana, the mustard acreages have witnessed a marginal decline over remaining yr’s levels.

The acreages underneath gram has been decrease than final year’s degrees inside the principal producing States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. However, in Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the gram acreages have registered a marginal boom.

A foremost decline in planting of jowar in Maharashtra on account of the prevailing drought has pulled down the whole acreage by means of 27 consistent with cent. In Maharasthra, jowar has been planted in about 9.1 lakh ha, as against corresponding closing yr’s 16.03 lakh ha. Jowar acreage has additionally decline in Karnataka, but has visible an growth in Tamil Nadu.