COMMODITY
India’s wheat sowing increases 2.15% in ongoing rabi season
Dec-31-2024

India’s wheat sowing area rose 2.15% to 319.74 lakh hectares in the ongoing rabi (winter) 2024-25 season as against 313.00 lakh hectares in 2023-24 rabi (winter) season. Oilseeds acreage fell 5.14% to 96.15 lakh hectares in 2024-25 as compared to 101.37 lakh hectares in 2023-24. 

Wheat, the primary winter crop, is typically planted from November and harvested between March and April. Pulses acreage remained flat at 136.13 lakh hectares as on December 30 of this rabi season, with gram covering 93.98 lakh hectares and lentil 17.43 lakh hectares. Coarse cereals sowing slightly increased to 48.55 lakh hectares, up from 47.77 lakh hectares in 2023-24. 

Rapeseed-mustard seed coverage dropped to 88.50 lakh hectares from 93.73 lakh hectares, while groundnut seed area remained flat at 3.32 lakh hectares as at last year's level. Total coverage under all rabi crops rose marginally to 614.94 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing rabi season of 2024-25. 

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