Sowing of Wheat, the main rabi crop, completed in 190.87 lakh hectares as on 8th December 2017, down by 6.23% from 203.56 lakh hectares in the year- ago period, according to latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture.
Sowing of Wheat starts in October and harvesting begins in April. Normally the crop is sown in 300-odd lakh hectares of land.
The sowing is lagging behind in key growing states Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.
According to the data, sowing of Wheat is nearing to complete in Punjab and Haryana, while substantial area is yet to be planted in other growing states.
Wheat has been sown in 54.79 lakh hectares of area in Uttar Pradesh so far in the 2017-18 rabi season, down from 57.09 lakh hectares in the year-ago period.
Similarly, area sown to Wheat in Madhya Pradesh remained lower at 33.23 lakh hectares as against 37.23 lakh hectares, while sowing in Punjab was down at 32.46 lakh hectares as against 33.29 lakh hectares in the said period.
Farmers in Haryana have sown Wheat in area totalling 21.59 lakh hectares so far this season as against 23.08 lakh hectares in the same period last year, the data showed.
The country had produced a record 96.64 million tonnes of Wheat in 2016-17 crop year.
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