Kharif Seeding Progress Falters
VANCOUVER - Aug 10/12 - SNS -- Seeding of this year's kharif season pulse crops limped forward during the past week, with farmers only planting 170,000 hectares during the week, judging from India's Agriculture Department's weekly seeding progress update. Weekly seeding progress normally averages 285,000 hectares per week the first half of August.
Land in pulses now totals 7.448 million hectares, compared to 9.02 million at this time last year, 8.844 million in 2010 and 8.59 million in 2009. Normally, 85% of all the kharif season pulses that will be planted, have been planted by the start of the second week of August.
Though seeding stretches out through the beginning of October, kharif season pulse planting normally wraps up by the middle of September. More importantly, the final push seems to occur through the middle of August, after which India's farmers only plant an average 285,000 hectares of pulses per week.
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