Kharif sowing witnesses sharp recovery after improved rainfall in July

Total acreage, however, remains below last year’s level, with the shortfall concentrated in coarse cereals, rice and pulses even as weather experts and economists warn that crop yields, not acreage, will determine the eventual harvest amid strengthening El Nino conditions.

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