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All-India kharif sown area stood at 1,086.31 lakh hectares as on 4 September 2026, against 1,104.00 lakh hectares in the same week of 2025-26 — a fall of 17.69 lakh hectares.
Pulses (117.13 lakh ha, up 1.84) and jute and mesta (6.34 lakh ha, up 0.10) were the two groups to gain over last year.
Rice fell the most, to 421.82 lakh hectares from 438.19 lakh hectares, a decline of 16.37 lakh hectares.
Shree Anna and coarse cereals covered 181.39 lakh hectares, oilseeds 191.99 lakh hectares, cotton 109.17 lakh hectares and sugarcane 58.47 lakh hectares.
The data comes from the weekly Progressive Crop Area Sown Report of the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Collects and publishes agricultural statistics, including the advance estimates of area, production and yield for major crops for each agricultural year (July–June).
Recommends the Minimum Support Price for mandated crops after weighing cost of production, demand and supply, market trends and inter-crop price parity; area data of this kind feeds that assessment.
The inter-ministerial group that reviews monsoon progress, sowing and crop conditions through the season; the weekly sown-area report is issued from its monitoring.
A pre-announced floor price at which government agencies will buy a crop, declared before the sowing season on CACP's recommendation. MSP covers 22 mandated crops — 14 kharif, 6 rabi and 2 commercial (jute and copra) — with a separate Fair and Remunerative Price for sugarcane.
GS Paper 3 > Agriculture > Cropping Patterns, MSP and Agricultural Marketing
General Awareness > Indian Economy and Agriculture
With reference to the cultivation of Kharif crops in India in the last five years, consider the following statements: 1. Area under rice cultivation is the highest. 2. Area under the cultivation of jowar is more than that of oilseeds. 3. Area of cotton cultivation is more than that of sugarcane. 4. Area under sugarcane cultivation has steadily decreased. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: 1 and 3 only
Crops sown with the onset of the south-west monsoon in June-July and harvested from September; rice, maize, bajra, tur, soybean, groundnut and cotton are the principal ones.
The government's designation for millets, adopted in the Union Budget 2023-24; in this report it heads the coarse cereals group.
A bast fibre crop grown alongside jute, mainly in eastern India, and one of the two crops in the jute-and-mesta group.