Summary:- India has sown the Kharif season crop in 46% of its normal 1,073 million hectares. This area is used for summer cultivation. The 499.87 million hectares of land that farmers have sow Kharif crops have been used up to July 9, 10.4% less than the 558.11 lakh hectares planted during the same period last year.

The pace of Indian crop sowing has been slowed by a mid-season pause caused by the monsoons. Although the acreage so far is down about a tenth of last year’s, an expected revival in rainfall this month will help bridge the gap and reduce the potential risk of farm-output shrinkage.

According to the Ministry for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Indian farmers have now planted 49.9 Million Hectares of summer (Kharif) crops. This is 10.4% less than a year ago.

Typically, farmers start planting summer-sown crop crops around June 1, when the monsoon rains typically reach India. The planting process continues through early August.

The ministry reported that rice planting, the main summer crop, stood at 11.5million hectares as of July 9, compared to 12.6million hectares the previous year.

The total area of cotton cultivation was 8.6 million hectares. This was down from 10.5 million.

Soybean sowing reached 8.2 million hectares in comparison to 9.2million hectares the previous year. India is the largest buyer of cooking oils in the world.

The world’s second-largest sugarcane producer was nearly unchanged at 5.3 million hectares.

Farmers planted protein-rich pulses on 5.2 million hectares, compared to 5.3 million hectares the year before.

These figures are not final and may change as the June-September monsoon season progresses.

Since June 1, the start of the four-month rainy seasons, India has seen 5% less rainfall than average. In the week ending July 7, monsoon rains fell 46% lower than average.