Farmers, strengthened by promising monsoon forecasts, aggressively increase summer sowing, promote the expectations of bumper yields and potential inflation.
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According to data shared by the Ministry of Agriculture and the good living conditions of farmers, the area has reached 7.88 million hectares under the summer sowing of crops. The area of all crops, including unpeeled, impulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds, are higher before a year.
The current summer area coverage is also 10.5% more than five -year average of 7.13 million hectares, showed data about the Ministry of Agriculture. The average summer sowing is based on the usual areas from 2019–2023 to 2023-24.
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This comes against the background of the prognosis for early and above normal monsoon in 2025 by the Indian meteorological department (IMD). Monsoon rains are expected to hit Kerala 27 May, five days earlier than usual.
The southwestern monsoon advanced to some parts of the South Bay of Bengal, the Southern Andaman Sea, the Nicobar Islands and some parts of the Northern Andaman Sea on Tuesday, two days in advance. The conditions are favorable for further progress of the southwestern monsoon in some parts of the South Arab Sea, Maldives and Chamber, some other parts of the Bengal South Bay of Bengal, the whole of Andaman and the Nicobar Islands, the remaining parts of the Andaman Sea and some parts of the Bay of Bengal over the next 2-3 days.
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The red -west monsoon of the southwest monsoon in September June is proceeding as expected and is essential for the Indian Agrarian economy because it brings almost 70% of the country’s annual precipitation.
According to the Ministry, the Paddy area increased to 3.20 million hectares last year from May 9 from 2.85 million hectares, an increase of approximately 12%. Summer Paddy is grown mainly in states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
Also, gross cereals, such as Jarwar, Bajra, Ragi, also recorded an increase of 12.6% to 1.46 million hectares.
“If everything goes well, an increase in summer crops will increase production. What is more encouraging is that there is an increase in pulses.
Since May 9, the area under pulses has increased to 2.27 million hectares from 2.12 million hectares, an increase of almost 7%.
The oilseed area has increased to 951,000 hectares from 923,000 hectares, an increase of approximately 3%.
The increase in production not only promotes food safety, but also strengthens the government’s efforts to inflation. In April, retail inflation was alleviated to a nearly six -year minimum of 3.16% mainly because of lower food prices, which potentially created space for the Indian Reserve Bank to review policy in black assignment.
India follows the three main periods of crops: summer, kharif and rabbi. The summer season of crops in India, also known as ZAID, usually runs from March to June. This period is a short window between Rabi (Winter) and Kharif (Monsoon). Zid crops are mainly grown on irrigated soil and are known for having a short time. In October and November, the crops of kharif, which are sown in June and July, are harvested and depends on the monsoon rains. Rabbi crops, planted in October and November, are harvested on January.
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