Normal Summer Pulse Seeding Progress in India
VANCOUVER - Sep 7/12 - SNS -- The amount of land sown to pulses during the past week in India was closer to normal than the previous week, with the result area planted so far this year is now down 758,000 hectares from this time last year, compared to a 576,000 hectare deficit last week.
Farmers planted just 55,000 hectares of pulses during the past week, which is lower than usual for the first week of September. While monsoon rainfall activity has improved considerably in the past week, it may be that precipitation levels were too heavy in areas where farmers wanted to plant pulses, or that they made up for seeding delays the previous week.
Land in pulses now totals 9.825 million hectares, compared to 10.583 million at this time last year, 11.008 million in 2010 and 9.613 million in 2009. Normally, 95% of all the kharif season pulses that will be planted, have been planted by the end of the first week of September.
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