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Indian Farmers Increase Sowing of Rice and Pulses as of June 20
The area allocated to monsoon-sown rice crops has surged 58% from a year earlier to 1.32 million hectares (3.3 million acres) as of Friday, according to India's agriculture ministry.
Farmers have planted pulses on 944,000 hectares of farmland, climbing 42% from a year earlier, the ministry said in a statement late Monday. Cotton planting has increased to 3.1 million hectares, up 7.4% from a year earlier, it said.
