फसल सलाह गोल्ड

  Tur crop is a largely rain- fed  crop, with hardly 8% of its total area coming under irrigation. Its relatively long duration of 5-6 months requires at least a couple of good showers. As Northwest India reels under excess rain, the situation is quite the opposite in the two major pulses-growing states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Impact of deficient rainfall The overall shortfall in pulses area is a result of cumulative rainfall during the ongoing monsoon season from June 1 to July 11 being 23% below the historical normal average for this period in Maharashtra, 26.2% in Karnataka and 30.9% in Telangana. This is as against a rainfall surplus of 155.4% recorded by Rajasthan during this period. Within pulses, the real acreage lag is in arhar or tur (pigeon-pea), almost half from 15.064 lh to 6.012 lh. This isn’t surprising, given that the rainfall deficiency has been even more in North Karnataka (36.7%), Marathwada (39.4%) and Vidarbha (30.6%), which have large arhar-growing a...