Page 6 - Kharif Crops

Dry June hits sowing of kharif crops; monsoon likely to revive in July

Till June 30, the southwest monsoon was 33 per cent lower than normal, which is among the worst in the last five years, with 28 of the 36 meteorological divisions recording deficient rain

UP procures record 4.65 mn tonnes paddy, barely enough space to store it

Currently, warehouses can store just 5.4 mn tonnes of food grains; State is ramping up capacity to touch 8 mn tonnes in 5 years for optimum procurement

Ahead of polls, 3 states announce big procurement plans for kharif crops

State govt has also lowered mandi fees to Rs1.50 for a transaction of every Rs100 against earlier fees of Rs2/100

Sowing of kharif crops at a steady pace despite deficit monsoon

The southwest monsoon was 33% below normal during the first week of August.

Kharif sowing improves further as rains revive, reservoir levels rise

Combined volume of water in 91 reservoirs, at 63.33 bn cubic meters, is more than last year's volume and better than the 10-year average too

Area under kharif crops shrinks due to inadequate rain in east India

The sowing of kharif crops will continue till the middle of August but with every passing day the window of sowing to get an optimum harvest is narrowing

Kharif sowing picks up but is still about 10% lower than last year

Sowing of groundnut and cotton crops has fallen significantly

Farmers will lose Rs 36k-cr due to prices falling below MSP: Farmers' body

Thousands of farmers to gather in Delhi on November 20 to highlight their plight

Shortage of jute sacks to hurt kharif season procurement

Food grains and sugar procurement in the country during the kharif agriculture season of 2017-18 is set to take a blow as supplies of jute sacking bags is in disarray. The Jute Commissioner's office is yet to update its Jute Smart portal and make it compliant with the new indirect tax structure- Goods & Service Tax (GST). According to the Jute Packaging Materials Packaging Act (JPMA)-1987, it is mandatory to pack foodgrains in jute sacking bags of up to 90 per cent. For sugar, the packaging order is relaxed at 20 per cent.Punjab, the biggest indenter of jute sacking bags for packing food grains has warned the office of the Jute Commissioner that the situation may spun out of control if urgent steps are not implemented to make the jute industry GST ready. In two separate letters to the Jute Commissioner's office on July 4 and July 10, the Punjab government authorities alerted that kharif procurement operations would suffer as supplies of jute bags were in a quandary. The Punjab ...

'Kharif crop in over 35 lakh hectare hit due to rain failure'

During 2016 Kharif season, sowing was done in about 71.67 lakh hectares, and due to the failure of rains crops in 35.41 lakh has been damaged

Kharif crops face flood threat

Rain, flooding hit large tracts in UP, MP & Bihar; crops like paddy impacted