Rabi acreage 6% more than last year

From here, all eyes on weather, mainly during harvest time

Rabi, or winter crops, have been planted on around 64.5 million hectares of land till February 3, according to the Centre's final sowing report released on Friday. This is almost 21 per cent more than the normal area, 6 per cent more than in 2015-16 and just marginally more than the previous normal monsoon year of 2013.

Both 2014 and 2015 were drought years. The area covered under rabi crops in 2013 — which was the last normal monsoon year — was 64.4 million hectares, 0.15 per cent less than this year's acreage.

This year, according to the report, wheat