Rabi Area Coverage as on 28.11.2014

As per Rabi Crops data released by Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, total area coverage under Rabi crops moves to 360.94 lakh hectares while last year's sowing area was at 378.92 lakh hectare. Wheat's sowing area has shown slight improvement and is at 161.57 lakh hectares as compared to last year's 159.11 lakh hectares. The area under sowing of Gram is at 63.85 lakh hectare this year while the last year's figure was 75.79 lakh hectare. Area coverage under Total Pulses is at 95.93 lakh hectare while the last year's sowing area coverage was 107.06 lakh hectare. Similarly sowing area under total oilseeds is at 65.07 lakh hectare as compared to 70.21 lakh hectare last year.