Till last week, total area sown to kharif crops was higher by 11.38 lakh hectares when compared to the year-ago period
production of pulses grew by 30% last year in the state and AP was the only state to have produced more than the target
Till last week, total acreage under kharif crops was down 23% to 215.87 lakh hectare
According to the IMD, June ended with an overall rainfall deficiency of 11 per cent