Anticipating normal monsoon, Odisha sets 10 mn tonne food grains target

Anticipating normal monsoon, Odisha government has set a target to produce 10 million tonnes of food grains in the ensuing Kharif season. 

As per the plan, the Kharif production target will be covering 5.11 million hectares of land with a yield rate of 2030 kilogram per hectare. The sowing of Kharif starts with the onset of monsoon. 

Officials said, the 2018 southwest monsoon is expected to be good and would give an impetus to the farming. This year, the southwest monsoon, according to the India Meteorological Department, is projected at 97 per cent of the long period average with a model error