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* Farmers in Andhra Pradesh sowed kharif crops over 2.2 mln ha as of Wednesday, up 4% from a year ago, according to data released by the state. The target area set for the current kharif season is 3.4 mln ha. Kharif crops are sown at the beginning of the southwest monsoon season in June, and harvested at the end of the season around October. The total area under foodgrains was 1.5 mln ha, up 8.4% on year, according to the report. The total area under pulses increased to 233,000 ha from 143,000 ha a year ago. Paddy acreage fell marginally to 1.1 mln ha as of Wednesday, while the area under maize increased 19.4% to 111,000 ha. Paddy, maize, tur, groundnut, and cotton are the major crops grown in the state during the kharif season. Redgram, or tur, acreage saw a jump of almost 65% on year at 206,000 ha, ccording to the report. The total area under oilseeds fell to 318,000 ha from 343,000 ha a year ago. Groundnut acreage declined 8.2% on year to 269,000 ha. Currently, regdram is at a vegetative stage while maize is at a vegetative-to-cob formation stage. "Paddy is at the transplantation to panicle initiation stage," the report said, adding that cotton is at a vegetative to flowering to boll formation stage. The area under cotton fell to 371,000 ha from 380,000 ha a year ago. The target area for cotton for the current kharif season is 587,000 ha. As of Wednesday, the state received excess rainfall this monsoon season at 550.7 mm.

* Farmers in Maharashtra have sown kharif crops over 14.7 mln ha as of Monday, 2.6% higher than the acreage in the corresponding period last year, according to data released by the state's agriculture department. The area under kharif crops during the same period last year was 14.3 mln ha. Kharif crops are sown at the beginning of the southwest monsoon season around June and harvested around October.The acreage under paddy, as of Monday, was 1.48 mln ha, against 1.51 mln ha in the same period last year, the report said. The acreage under maize rose to 1.1 mln ha from 902,653 ha a year ago. The acreage under total food grains so far was 5.1 mln ha, up from 4.6 mln ha a year ago.The acreage under all pulses was 1.9 mln ha, up from 1.6 mln ha a year ago, the report said. Under pulses, the area sown under tur rose to 1.2 mln ha from 1.1 mln ha a year ago. The area sown under total oilseeds so far was 5.3 mln ha, up from 5.2 mln ha a year ago, the report showed. Under oilseeds, the acreage under soybean rose to 5.1 mln ha from 5 mln ha last year. Similarly, the acreage under groundnuts rose to 147,913 ha from 142,147 ha a year ago. Cotton acreage as of Monday was 4.1 mln ha, down from 4.2 mln ha in the corresponding period last year. The acreage under sugarcane also fell to 194,785 ha from 280,202 ha a year ago, the report said. The water levels in dams of Maharashtra is at 82.2% of the live storage capacity as of today, compared with 64.8% a year ago, according to data from the state water resources department.

* Farmers in Karnataka have sown kharif crops over 7.8 mln ha as of Friday, nearly 16.5% higher than 6.7 mln ha sown in the corresponding period last year, according to the report released by the state's agricultural department. The normal kharif acreage for the period, which is an average of the last five years, is 7 mln ha. So far, nearly 94% of the targeted kharif sowing area of 8.2 mln ha has been covered, according to the data. Kharif crops are sown during the southwest monsoon season starting around June, and harvested towards the end of the season around October. The main kharif crops sown in Karnataka are paddy, maize, ragi, tur, cotton, and sugarcane. As of Friday, the state has received 840 mm of rainfall since Jun 1, 22% above the normal rainfall of 686 mm, the report showed. The area sown under maize so far was 1.6 mln ha, up from 1.5 mln ha a year ago, the report said. The acreage under paddy rose to 873,000 ha from 670,000 ha in the same period last year. The acreage under pulses as of Friday rose to 2.2 mln ha from 1.7 mln ha a year ago, the report said. Under pulses, the acreage under tur rose to 1.6 mln ha from 1.3 mln ha a year ago. The area sown under green gram, or moong, rose sharply to 441,000 ha from 177,000 ha last year. The area sown under total oilseeds rose to 825,000 ha from 794,000 ha a year ago, the report said. Under oilseeds, the area under groundnut rose to 324,000 ha from 312,000 ha a year ago. Similarly, the acreage under soybean rose to 422,000 ha from 407,000 ha a year ago. Cotton acreage in the state so far was 674,000, up from 660,000 ha a year ago. The acreage under sugarcane was 659,000 ha, down from 690,000 in the same period last year, the report said.

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