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Article: Area under rice cultivation up 28 percent this year
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 26, 2008
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New Delhi, July 26 -- With Indian farmers bringing 28 percent more area under rice cultivation in this kharif (summer) season compared to last season, higher foodgrain production is expected to mitigate inflationary pressures later this year, an agriculture ministry official has said.
According to data compiled by the ministry of agriculture, India's staple food crop, rice, is being cultivated in an area of over 17 million hectares as on July 25 against 14.3 million hectares in the corresponding period last year, the official said.
"Sowing of kharif food crops is progressing satisfactorily," he said.
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