Review of Rabi and Preparedness for Kharif 2009-10

Dr. N.B. Singh Agriculture Commissioner

Department of Agriculture & Cooperation

National Kharif ConferenceMarch 20-21, 2009

I. Prospects of Rabi Production

2008-09

Total Foodgrains : Season-wise Production Trends

Year Kharif

Production

Rabi

Production

Total Foodgrains Production

1989-90 100.99 70.05 171.04

1996-97 103.92 95.52 199.44

1998-99 102.91 110.69 203.60

1999-2000 105.51 104.29 209.80

2007-08 120.97 109.70 230.67

2008-09 117.96 109.92 227.88

Kharif Area – 1988-90 - 81.4 m ha 2007-08 - 73.58 m ha

Rabi area - 1989-90 - 45.6 m ha 2007-08 - 50.86 m ha

Kharif Productivity – 1989-90 – 1.2 t/ha 2007-08 - 1.64 t/ha

Rabi Productivity - 1989-90 – 1.54 t/ha 2007-08 – 2.15 t / ha

Million tonnes

Area Coverage of Rabi 2008-09

( As on 12-03-2009)Crop Normal

Area Area sown (+/-) over

the last year

2008-09 2007-08*

Wheat 265.72 277.98 281.53 -3.55

Rabi rice 37.16 44.58 43.8 0.78

Rabi sorghum 49.11 48.82 43.62 5.20

Rabi maize 8.02 12.22 11.24 0.98

Total Cereals 366.47 391.80 386.37 5.43

Gram 68.50 85.81 75.43 10.38

Total Pulses 116.30 142.90 121.43 21.47

R&M 62.71 66.20 58.25 7.95

Groundnut 8.28 9.88 9.79 0.09

Total Oilseeds 95.16 98.23 87.43 10.80

Total of all crops 577.93 632.93 595.23 37.70

Area in lakh ha

* Based on IV th Advanced Estimates of DES

Wheat

Area coverage in major wheat growing States

State  Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09 +/-

Bihar 20.57 21.45 23.22 1.77

Gujarat 8.07 13.94 12.07 -1.87

Haryana 23.16 24.74 24.8 0.06

M.P. 38.58 37.42 35.9 -1.52

Maharashtra 8.69 12.54 9.99 -2.55

Punjab 34.47 34.94 34.95 0.01

Rajasthan 21.2 25.92 22.52 -3.4

Uttar Pradesh 91.21 91.15 94.44 3.29

West Bengal 3.89 3.53 4 0.47

( As on 12-03-2009)

Rabi Rice

Area coverage in major Rabi Rice growing States

State

 Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09

+/-

Andhra Pradesh 10.48 13.86 15.6 1.74

Assam 3.16 3.13 3.54 0.41

Bihar 1.14 1.71 0.9 -0.81

Karnataka 2.01 3.4 2.86 -0.54

Kerala 0.34 0.45 0.34 -0.11

Orissa 2.68 3.26 2.83 -0.43

Tamilnadu 1.49 1.45 2.31 0.86

West Bengal 13.91 15 15 0

Others 1.95 1.72 1.2 -0.52

( As on 12-03-2009)

Rabi Maize Area coverage in major rabi Maize

growing States

State

 Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09 +/-

Andhra Pradesh 1.56 2.9 3.86 0.96

Bihar 2.00 3.29 3.06 -0.23

Gujarat 0.42 0.79 0.68 -0.11

Karnataka 0.68 0.77 1.19 0.42

Maharashtra 0.78 0.83 0.83 0

Tamilnadu 0.68 1.27 1.71 0.44

Uttar Pradesh 0.33 0.41 0.32 -0.09

West Bengal 1.48 0.2 0.25 0.05

( As on 12-03-2009)

Rabi SorghumArea coverage in major Rabi Sorghum

growing States

State

 Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09 +/-

Andhra Pradesh 3.10 1.97 1.76 -0.21

Gujarat 0.55 0.46 0.46 0

Karnataka 13.06 10.76 12.08 1.32

Maharashtra 31.28 28.64 32.57 3.93

Tamilnadu 1.1 1.76 1.92 0.16

Others 0.02 0.03 0.03 0

Total Pulses Area coverage in major pulse growing States

State

 Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09 +/-

Andhra Pradesh 10.63 12.63 10.54 -2.09

Bihar 5.61 5.32 4.47 -0.85

Chattisgarh 6.7 6.92 8.09 1.17

Karnataka 7.2 7.79 10.48 2.69

Madhya Pradesh 33.77 31.27 36.05 4.78

Maharashtra 10.74 14.66 12.59 -2.07

Orissa 2.12 3.13 12.28 9.15

Rajasthan 9.81 12.31 11.53 -0.78

Tamilnadu 3.57 5.11 6.26 1.15

Uttar Pradesh 18.52 13.32 19.7 7.39

Others 3.00 2.94 4.35 2.48

Oilseeds Area coverage in major oilseeds growing States

State

  Area (lakh ha)

Normal 2007-08 2008-09 +/-

Andhra Pradesh 6.31 6.61 7 0.39

Assam 2.65 2.84 2.87 0.03

Chattisgarh 1.28 3.17 2.85 -0.32

Gujarat 3.71 5.18 4.73 -0.45

Haryana 6.6 5.41 6.25 0.84

Karnataka 9.4 7.73 9.02 1.29

Madhya Pradesh 7.55 8.14 9.59 1.45

Maharashtra 6.35 5.31 3.8 -1.51

Rajasthan 28.46 24.8 27.65 2.85

Tamilnadu 2.25 4.17 2.6 -1.57

Uttar Pradesh 8.91 8.24 9.21 0.97

West Bengal 6.5 6.12 4.78 -1.34

Others 1.91 1.6 1.46 -0.14

• Area under most of the rabi crops is reported to be higher than last year except minor decline in wheat.

• The higher area of wheat is reported in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal and lower area in Maharsahtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

• The area under coarse cereals, pulses and oilseeds is higher than last rabi season.

• The temperature during January to March, though, slightly higher than the normal, yet it has been within the range of optimum limit.

• Higher production of rabi pulses and oilseeds is expected

Overall Scenario

II. Preparedness For Kharif – 2009-10

State-wise Production of RiceState 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09*

Andhra Pradesh 117.04 118.72 133.24 131.13

Assam 35.53 29.16 33.19 32.14

Bihar 34.96 49.89 44.18 47.07

Chhattisgarh 50.12 50.41 54.27 47.51

Gujarat 12.98 13.90 14.74 13.50

Haryana 32.10 33.71 36.13 33.01

Jharkhand 15.58 29.68 33.36 30.57

Kerala 6.30 6.31 5.29 5.21

Contd…..

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09*

Karnataka 57.44 34.46 37.17 37.17

Madhya Pradesh 16.56 13.68 14.62 14.34

Maharashtra 26.95 25.69 29.96 22.87

Orissa 68.59 68.25 75.41 75.41

Punjab 101.19 101.38 104.89 111.59

Tamilnadu 52.20 66.11 50.40 67.03

Uttar Pradesh 111.34 111.24 117.80 127.91

West Bengal 145.11 147.46 147.20 153.33

Others 33.96 33.50 35.09 39.10

ALL INIDA 917.93 933.55 966.93 988.89

Contd…

- Promote Hybrid Rice under NFSM

- Present Hybrid rice area is about 1 m ha

- Targeted area coverage under hybrid rice in next 4 years is 3 million ha

- Need to produce 4.5 lakh quintal of hybrids seed (three fold increase)

- Assistance of Rs.1000/quintal for seed production is provided

- Assistance available to NSC / SFCI, State, seed agencies and also private agencies for certified seed

Kharif Rice

System of Rice Intensification• SRI saves water, requires

less seeds• Exploit the physiological

vigour. Produces 25-50% higher yield than conventional methods

• More head rice than conventional method

• Funds are earmarked for SRI Demonstrations

SRI results into robust plants

Out Break Of Brown Plant Hopper (BPH)

•The BPH is a major problem of rice in many countries. Severe BPH infestation was observed in Haryana during Kharif 2008.

Strategies to Manage of BPH

•Pest surveillance and strict monitoring required

•The preventive measures like wider spacing, leaving alleys of 0.5 m after every 15-20 meter, and optimum dose of nitrogen (not beyond 120 kg/ha) should be adopted.

•Control measures include application of phorate 3 G @ 25 kg/ha or carbaryl 50 WP @ 1200 g/ha or other recommended insecticides.

Brown Plant Hopper on Rice Plant

Area, Production and Yield of Maize in respect of some Maize Producing States (2006/07)

State Area Production Yield

Uttar Pradesh

0.87 1.16 1335

Rajasthan 1.03 1.12 1086

M.P 0.86 0.84 976

A.P. 0.73 2.46 3396

Karnataka 0.96 2.72 2829

All India 7.89 15.10 1912

Area : Million ha

Production : Million tonnes

Yield : Kg / ha

Frontline Demonstrations on Maize conducted during Kharif – 2006 in UP

District No. of FLDS

Average yield of FLDS (kg/ha

% increase over state average yield

Deoria 128 6,738 295.19

Ghazipur 59 5,992 251.44

Aligarh 50 4,337 156.72

Unnao 87 3,953 131.85

Bulandshahar 20 3,461 102.99

Lalitpur 20 3,656 114.43

Total 399 5,051 1052.62Source : IFFCO Foundation Report - 2007

Kharif Maize

Strategy for enhancing productivity: • Promote ridge planting in eastern States to

avoid water logging • Increase productivity through promotion of

hybrids specially single cross hybrids in all States

• Adopt INM as per Soil Test Report • Increase the production of quality maize in

hilly States to improve nutritional quality

- Target is to bring additional 4 million ha area in pulses under NFSM

- About 2 m ha area to be increased through inter-cropping / mixed cropping

- Target inter crops are - Soybean + pigeon pea in M.P. and Maharashtra, and cotton+ pigeonpea, sorghum+ pigeonpea/green gram/black gram, A.P., Gujarat and Maharashtra and groundnut with short duration pigeon pea in Gujarat, Karnataka and A.P.

- Every seed of pulses to be treated with appropriate fungicide before sowing

Kharif Pulses

- One CMS based hybrid of pigeon pea released for Gujarat i.e. GTH – 100

- Several hybrids developed by ICRISAT are under seed multiplication

- Urgent need to develop efficient seed production system of hybrid pigeon pea.

- Promote hybrid pigeonpea in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

New Hybrids of Pigeon Pea

Kharif Oilseeds

• Increase seed replacement rate in oilseeds especially groundnut and soybean

• Increase the area under hybrids in Sunflower

• Integrated nutrient and pest management

• Inter-cropping with pulses

• Control the new emerging pest in soybean - Tobacco leaf cater pillar

Management of Tobacco Hairy Caterpillar in Soybean

• Light brown moths with dark spots and longitudinal yellow lining on both the sides active during night time.

• Management Strategy• Regular pest monitoring and assessment

at every 10 days interval. • Removal of egg masses at early stages • Spray with pesticide i.e. Endosulfan or

Deltarnathrin or Quinolphos 25 • Dust endosulfan 4% or quinalphos 1.5%

when their population is likely to reach 10/m row length (ETL). Repeat it as needed.

Biological Control• Spray bio agents like Bacillus

thuringiensis and Beauveria bassiana @ 1kg or 1 lit/ha at 35-40 and 50-55 days after sowing respectively.

Tobacco Hairy Caterpillar on leaves of soybean

• Bt. Technology has been successful in enhancing the productivity of cotton

• A serious problem of Mealy bugs has been observed in few states especially in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat

• Preparedness required to manage Mealy bug which has become a serious pest

Cotton

- Clean cultivation - Remove all debris of the previous crop well in

advance- Since the infestation is sporadic remove the

initial infested plants quickly - Use the appropriate pesticides at appropriate

intervals - Launch a campaign for awareness among the

farmers

Management of Mealy Bug in Cotton

Some Operational Issues

III. National Food Security

Mission

Integrated Nutrient Management (INM)

• Availability of Micronutrients, lime and gypsum is observed to be constraint in some States : States to identify agencies for timely supply

• Priority areas for treatment with lime and zypsum to be identified well in advance

• Guidelines for incentives for micronutrients have been suitably modified

Mini

MissionActivities Related Organisation

MM-I Research activities on jute ICAR (DARE)

MM-II Development/Extension of raw jute

Ministry of Agriculture (DAC), Government of India, State Govt

MM-III Marketing of raw jute Ministry of Textiles, Government of India

MM-IV Processing, utilisation and industrial aspects of raw jute

Ministry of Textiles, Government of India

Technology Mission on Jute

Mini Mission-II will be coordinated by the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (DAC)

Objective and Strategy

1. Thrust on increasing productivity

2. Accelerated Production of breeder seed / foundation seed / certified seed

3. Development programmes to be extended to sunnhemp, ramie and sisal crops

4. For ramie crop, facilities to be created for production and distribution of rhizome.

Components on which incentives providedSl.No. Component

1 Seed/ Planting Material

i. Dist. of certified jute seed/quality seed

ii. Ramie Rhizome

iii. Dist. of Jute/Mesta seed minikit

2 Implements

Multi-row Seed-drill, Wheel-hoe, RibbonerSprayer

3 Technology Demonstration

i. Production Technology

ii. Retting Technology

5 Post Harvest Operation

i. Development of Retting Facility

ii. Individual Kutcha Retting Tank

iii. Individual Pucca Retting Tank

iv. Establishment of Degumming Unit for ramie

6 Integrated Pest Management Demonstration

7 Farmers’ Fields School

Input Management

• Adequate certified seed of rice is available- against a requirement of 43.06 lakh Qtls, 47.44 lakh Qtls is available

• Quality seed of other crops is reported to be adequate but needs monitoring for availability at right time and places

• The movement of Minikit seed to be monitored on time scale