The country has harvested 38 per cent of the total wheat area of an estimated 32 million hectare so far in the ongoing 2025-26 marketing season, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. Wheat “harvesting conditions are better” in key growing states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Bihar. The government has set a wheat procurement target of 31 million tonnes for the 2025-26 marketing season (April-March).
About 59 per cent of the total rabi crops area has been harvested as on April 4 across the country. Besides rabi crops like wheat, the minister also took stock of the progress of sowing of zaid crops, which are grown between rabi and kharif season. Of this, rice has been sown in 32 lakh hectare and pulses in 11 lakh hectare and oilseeds in 7.35 lakh hectare in the said period. As per the data, total area under zaid crops has reached 60.22 lakh hectare so far this year, up from 52.40 lakh hectare a year ago.
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