 "Mysore district sees good rainfall")
Mysore district has met with the cent per cent of the average rainfall by recording 255.7mm till June during the present monsoon season, against the average of 254.6 mm.
So far during the current month too, the district has crossed the June month average of 45.2 mm experiencing 50.5 mm, accounting for 112 per cent. Except T.Narasipur taluk, rest of the taluks in the district has recorded the average rainfall so far in current month.
Thanks to the good pre-monsoon rains, farmers have taken up agricultural operations. Sowing has taken place in 2,09,282 hectares. The target set for the 2014-15 monsoon cropping seasons is 4,19,695 hectares. A major portion covered so far is in rain-fed area - 2,03,754 hectares against the target of 3,01,210 (68.5 per cent). However, the cultivated area covered under irrigated area is a meager 5,528 hectares, five per cent of the targetted 118,485 hectares.
Wherever rains have fallen, farmers have sown hybrid maize, ragi, jowar, pulses, groundnut, sesame, cotton and sugarcane and tobacco planting. Pests are seen affecting pulses in some places and farmers are told to contact the local 'rytha samparka kendras' and take advise to combat it.
According to Joint Director of Agriculture M.Mahanteshappa, there is no shortage of agricultural inputs like hybrid jowar, jowar, and pulses as their certified seeds are in sufficient stock given to farmers under subsidy scheme for the current monsoon crops. Farmers can contact the contact centres or the office of the Assistant Director of Agriculture for any information relating to agricultural operations, he said.
So far during the current month too, the district has crossed the June month average of 45.2 mm experiencing 50.5 mm, accounting for 112 per cent. Except T.Narasipur taluk, rest of the taluks in the district has recorded the average rainfall so far in current month.
Thanks to the good pre-monsoon rains, farmers have taken up agricultural operations. Sowing has taken place in 2,09,282 hectares. The target set for the 2014-15 monsoon cropping seasons is 4,19,695 hectares. A major portion covered so far is in rain-fed area - 2,03,754 hectares against the target of 3,01,210 (68.5 per cent). However, the cultivated area covered under irrigated area is a meager 5,528 hectares, five per cent of the targetted 118,485 hectares.
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Wherever rains have fallen, farmers have sown hybrid maize, ragi, jowar, pulses, groundnut, sesame, cotton and sugarcane and tobacco planting. Pests are seen affecting pulses in some places and farmers are told to contact the local 'rytha samparka kendras' and take advise to combat it.
According to Joint Director of Agriculture M.Mahanteshappa, there is no shortage of agricultural inputs like hybrid jowar, jowar, and pulses as their certified seeds are in sufficient stock given to farmers under subsidy scheme for the current monsoon crops. Farmers can contact the contact centres or the office of the Assistant Director of Agriculture for any information relating to agricultural operations, he said.