Rice sowing at 969,000 hectares - govt

Enlarge Photo Kashmiri farmers plant rice crops in their field in Chak-e-Kawoosa, 25 km west of Srinagar,...

Fri, Jun 20 05:04 PM

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Rice sowing in India, the world's second-biggest producer, has been carried out on 969,000 hectares since June 1 when farmers began planting winter-harvested crops, the government said on Friday.

Winter-harvested or summer-sown rice, soybean, groundnut, sugarcane, cotton and corn are planted in the monsoon months of June and July and harvested in October.

Farmers planted oilseeds on 467,000 hectares between June 1 and June 20 versus 388,000 hectares in the same period of last year.

Sowing of soybean, the main summer oilseed crop, was at 103,000 hectares up to June 20, up from 24,000 hectares in the same period last year.

(Reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj)

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