Adverse effect on pulse crops due to continued monsoon activity

17-Sep-2024 03:49 PM

New Delhi. During the southwest monsoon season, most of the states of the country received normal or more rainfall, waterlogging in the fields and severe floods in many areas, which has caused a lot of damage to the Kharif pulse crops.

Although overall this time there has been a good increase in the sowing area of ​​pulse crops, but due to natural disasters, crops have been damaged in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

The Meteorological Department has expressed the possibility of heavy rains in seven states of the country during the next 2-3 days, which include Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Kerala.

As a result, there is a possibility of a lot of damage to the crops, especially urad and moong, in states like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Although the monsoon rainfall in June was 11 percent less than the normal average, it was 9 percent more in July and 16 percent more in August.

In the first 15 days of September, 10 percent more rain was recorded than the normal average. The weather department has predicted 109 percent rainfall as compared to the long period average (LPA) for the entire month of September.

If heavy rains continue, the pulse crops are bound to get damaged as these crops cannot tolerate water logging for long.

At present, it is difficult to say anything for sure about the pigeon pea crop but the black gram and green gram crops are getting damaged. The sowing area of ​​black gram also remained somewhat behind last year.