Page 3 - Rabi Sowing

Smoke signals

Farm fires are likely to exacerbate this year

Will rabi harvest and procurement script rural recovery amid farmers' stir?

A sharp drop in returns could exacerbate farmers' woes and fuel the ongoing protest; rabi crops currently being harvested are grown mostly in the Northern parts of the country, the hotbed of the stir

Spike in fertiliser sales boosts prospects for Coromandel International

While rabi season drives hopes of a strong Q3, analysts are hopeful of strong growth over the next two years

Street remains bullish on Escorts despite a 2.5x run since March

Sustained tractor demand, market share recovery and pick up in exports key tailwinds

Staring down Covid, agri among few sectors to grow in FY21 in arid economy

Agriculture is the only sector expected to clock a positive growth in 2020-21 as per the estimates released by MoSPI

Wheat sowing increases 4% at 32.53 mn hectare so far this rabi season

The area under the coverage for paddy is down marginally to 14.83 lakh hectare so far this rabi (winter-sown) season from 15.47 lakh hectare in the corresponding period previous year

Rabi on a roll: Current season may go up against December last year

According to rating agency CRISIL, kharif harvest was delayed last year, so acreage growth under rabi was on a low base till November 2019.

Centre aims to protect farmers, refuses to slash import duty on chana

Some traders are demanding a reduction to 35-40 per cent to tide over any shortage of the commodity as the new crop will start hitting the market only around mid-February

Electricity demand peaks in Punjab ahead of the sowing season: Report

In Haryana, demand has reached 8.5 Gw versus 9.4 Gw last year

India on course for bumper harvest, Rabi sowing scales multi-year high

Data from the agriculture ministry shows that among the main rabi crops, wheat acreage touched a record 33.02 million ha as on January 16, 2020

Wheat sowing up 9.28% to 31.3 mn hectare this rabi season on good weather

Sowing of rabi crops begins in October and harvesting kicks off from March

Wheat sowing area touches 27.8 mn hectares, accounts for 90% acreage

The area sown to wheat crop is higher than 25 million hectare covered in the year-ago period

Abundant late rains bring new hope for farmers in the coming rabi season

Reduced dependence on irrigation due to high soil moisture content could bring down production cost and boost margins

Rabi sowing in Gujarat likely to fall by half; crop production 60% lower

So far, as against a total of 850,000 hectares of total rabi sowing last year, the same has been at 450,100 hectares till November 12, as per the data available

Rabi sowing rises 18% in Chhattisgarh despite demonetisation

Acreage is about 18% more as compared to last year's 1.55 million hectares

It's rabi sowing, not cash crunch: What slowed demand for work under MNREGA

This is the time when farm labour is engaged in the fields which result in a dip in demand for work under MNREGA

Wheat, mustard, gram acreage show significant increase as rabi sowing picks up pace

This should significantly cool down food inflation in the coming days