High selling prices, rains drive farmers of India to switch from pulses to soybean and cotton
Cotton Seed
Soybean
Other Pea & Pulse
India
Published Aug 2, 2022
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Indian farmers are moving away from pulses towards commercial crops such as cotton and soybean, driven by their high trading prices above minimum support price (MSP) and good monsoon rains.
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According to a report by The Indian Express, which cited data from the Union Agriculture Ministry, Indian farmers, up until July 29, had sown 106.18 lakh hectares (lh) of area under pulses, marginally higher than last year’s 103.23 lh area for cultivation. However, while the overall picture suggests that pulse cultivation is going up, a state-wise look at acreages and cultivation patterns of individual pulses offer greater clarity into agricultural trends. Read | Centre launches 11th agricultural census 2021-22; to use smartphones, tablets for data collection In terms of individual pulses, arhar/tur (pigeon-pea), India’s largest produced kharif pulses crop, has seen cultivation area decline from 41.75 lh to 36.11 lh this year. This decrease, however, has been compensated for by increases in the cultivation areas of other pulses: moong (green gram) has grown from 25.29 lh to 29.26 lh, urad (black gram) from 27.94 lh to 28.01 lh, and other pulses, from 8.24 lh to 12.81 lh. Further, ...
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