A revival in monsoon rains has accelerated the sowing of key summer crops across India, helping farmers recover from an early-season slowdo...

Kharif crop sowing is 16 percent lower this season. This delay is attributed to a weak monsoon and El Nino effects. Area under pulses and c...

While the narrowing rainfall deficit has eased immediate concerns, experts say it is far too early to conclude that El Niño’s influence has...

Cotton sowing has accelerated in July as the southwest monsoon strengthens across India. Acreage has narrowed the gap compared to last year...

Kharif sowing lags significantly behind last year due to delayed and uneven monsoon rains. Paddy, pulses, and oilseeds acreage shows substa...

The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare reported a rise in total sown area to 704 lakh hectares this kharif season, with paddy leadin...

In the 2024-25 kharif season, paddy increased by 19.35% to 59.99 lakh hectare. Pulses rose to 36.81 lakh hectare, notably arhar. Maize reac...

The area sown to paddy in India has increased by 5% to 328.22 lakh hectares during the ongoing Kharif season compared to 312.80 lakh hectar...

According to the Met Department, overall monsoon was 4 per cent higher from June 1 to August 2. In east and northeast India, there was a de...

Till last week, area under paddy was lower by 14.66 per cent at 5.32 lakh hectare as against 6.23 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, as p...

Besides paddy, there is marginal lag in sowing of pulses, oilseeds and jute/mesta. Consequently, the total sown area under kharif crops dec...

The deficit in paddy sowing has reduced to 4.52 per cent at 399.03 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing kharif season on revival of rains in...

Paddy is the main kharif (summer) crop and more than 80 per cent of the country's total rice production happens during this season. Sowing ...

Sowing of kharif picks up with the onset of Southwest monsoon rains, which have been 6 per cent below average so far in the season that beg...

Paddy acreage stood at 374.81 lakh hectare in the year ago period.Kharif sowing begins with the onset of southwest monsoon from June and ha...

The coverage area under paddy crop has improved in states such as Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Punjab due to the pick-up in rains in June.

Area under kharif crops, including paddy, has increased by 17.70 per cent to 747.78 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing kharif season.