While summer crops contribute a relatively small share in the total production of Indian agricultural production, profits in the area-especially in rapidly growing crops such as pulses, oil and gross cereals-can help pillows short-term bids and place the foundations for the robust season kharif.
The average area sown in summer is around 7.1 million hectares, although it differs every year based on precipitation and climatic conditions. While the Kharif and Rabi season remains the most productive, summer crops fulfill the role. Summer production is not reported separately; It is part of the estimates of the production Kharif issued by the Ministry of Agriculture.
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This increase in sowing comes in critical time. Indian retail inflation in March alleviated to a six -year minimum, powered by sharp food prices. Inflation based on consumer prices (CPI) increased by 3.34% per year, less than 3.61% registered in February and 4.85% reported in the previous period. Food inflation – more volatile and politically sensitive component – in March from 3.75% in February from 3.75% and in March 2024 in March from 3.75% in February from 3.75%.
While this decline is largely caused by Rabi’s bumper, which now reaches markets, higher summer production could further stabilize prices in the coming months.
“Record production of wheat and unpeeled – the key crops of the Rabi and Kharif season – significantly reduced the pressure on the government,” said Bb Singh, expert on agriculture and former Seeds in the Indian Agricultural Research Council (ICAR). “With these (probably) bumper harvests, food prices are expected to remain stable in the near future.”
Summer sowing
India monitors three periods of crops – Rabi, kharif and summer (or zaid). The summer window, which runs from March to June, sits between the main harvest of Raby and the advent of the sow Kharif. These crops usually grow on irrigated soil and have shorter growing cycles, so the trends of the area are a useful early signal of agricultural momentum.
Since mid-April, a five-year-old (2018-19 to 2022-23) average has exceeded the sowing through the key summer crops and showed a strong year-on-year growth.
Paddy Sewing was 3.15 million hectares, of 2.76 million hectares a year ago and an over five -year average of 3.08 million hectares.
Essection of gross cereals, or Shree Anna, reached 1.15 million hectares – 4% of the normal area of 1.10 million hectares AO 16% higher than in the same period last year.
Pulses-more key component of trends in food inflation made a robust year-on-year increase of 23% in a sown area and expanded to 1.65 million hectares from 1.34 million hectares. The data showed only a green gram of only 1.36 million hectares.
Oil seed oil also increased by 4.4% to 916,000 hectares out of 785,000 hectares last year, which records a 14% increase compared to the five -year average of 786,000 hectares.
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Between the crops, farmers planted more green gram (Moong), black gram (Urad), oil, sunflower and sesame. However, the area under Bajra and Ragi has slightly decreased.
Monsoon optimism
This trend is expected to be transferred to the upcoming Kharif season, while sowing after mid -May with sowing.
Haryana is expected to start transplantation after mid -May. In Panjab, this process was transferred to June 1 – he described a significant shift since last year, when June 11 began. This is the first, which the state has begun Paddy transplantation since 2009, said a higher state agricultural official Mint.
The weather projection further lifted the sentiment of farmers. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts above the normal monsoon for 2025, which improves the prospects of a strong kharif harvest.
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A good monsoon will speed up the growth of agricultural production and will benefit the wider economy, said Niti member Aayog Ramesh Chand at the beginning of this month. “A good monsoon will help keep food inflation below 4%.”
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