Tag: Acreage

Dip in acreage to shrink cotton output by 7% to 302 lakh bales in 2024-25

Trade body Cotton Association of India (CAI) sees the 2024-25 cotton crop declining by 7 per cent at 302.25 lakh

Prospects for the basmati crop this year are projected to be good on increase in acreages and the crop size

The acreage in cotton in the current kharif cropping season is down by around 9 per cent till August 12

The cotton acreage has expanded in the South as farmers have brought more area under the natural fibre crop in

Sowing under kharif crops has gained further momentum with over half of the country’s normal area of 1,096 lakh hectares

Helped by early coverage of monsoon and revival of rainfall in central and north-west India from the last week of

Amid the sugar industry clamouring for a free export policy next season starting October, the latest official data show that

The area under summer crops has increased to 71.80 lakh hectares (lh) as of Friday, which is 7.5 per cent

Wheat production may exceed the targetted 114 million tonnes (mt) this year on good weather and higher acreage of climate

The area under mustard this year is estimated to have increased by 5 per cent to 100.39 lakh hectares (lh)