Indian Farmers Boost Sowing of Rice and Oilseeds as of June 27

The area allocated to monsoon-sown rice crops has surged 47% from a year earlier to 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) as of Friday, according to India’s agriculture ministry.

Farmers have planted oilseeds on 4.9 million hectares of land, climbing 20% from a year earlier, the ministry said in a statement late Monday. Pulses planting has increased to 2.1 million hectares, up 37% from a year earlier, it said.