SURVEY OF SOYBEAN CROP – KHARIF 2017

During the period from 14th to 20th August 2017, two teams of SOPA officials conducted an extensive field survey in 42 major soybean growing districts of three states Madhya Pradesh (23), Maharashtra (13) and Rajasthan (6), to assess the shift in area, crop condition, expected productivity, etc. Following are the major findings:

  1. This year, monsoon arrived on time and the sowing of soybean was done during 10th June to 20th July, 2017. Overall, germination is satisfactory. In some areas, re-sowing had to be done because an extended dry spell.
  2. It is estimated that area under soybean may decrease by about 6.4% over last year’s area estimate of SOPA. Estimate of area given by the government was higher than that of SOPA in 2016.
  3. Over all condition of the Soybean crop in most of the areas is Normal. In some parts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, where light soil exists, Soybean crop has already been damaged due to moisture stress, which may affect the overall productivity adversely in these areas.
  4. There is not much change in the area in Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
  5. The extended dry spell caused attack of some pests and insects in some areas. Attack of white grub larva was seen in some districts of Madhya Pradesh. Normally this does not happen in black cotton soil but the dry spell caused this which led to total damage to the standing crop in a small area was reported.
  6. No threat to crop by weeds was seen.
  7. On the last two days of the survey team’s tour, welcome rains were reported from some areas of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which will save the crop from further loss in yield.

SUMMARY – SOYBEAN CROP FIRST SURVEY KHARIF 2017

Area in Lakh Ha. , Yield in Kg per Ha. , Production in Lakh MT.

S. No.

 States Kharif 2016 Kharif 2017
Sowing Area Yield           Production  Sowing Area Crop Condition & Sowing Area 2017 Kharif 
Very Poor Area Fair Area Good Area

Very Good Area

1

Madhya Pradesh

54.010

 1058 57.168 47.950 5.386 28.486 8.139

5.939

2

Maharashtra

35.809

 1102 39.456 37.942 6.701 19.742 6.775

4.723

3

Rajasthan

9.812

 968 9.499 9.221 0.884 5.607 1.750

0.980

4

Telangana/AP

2.993

 815 2.439 1.612 0.193 0.967 0.290

0.161

5

Karnataka

 3.240 785 2.543 2.560 0.307 1.485 0.512 0.256

6

Chattisgarh

 1.340 975 1.307 1.315 0.158 0.921 0.132 0.105

7

Gujarat

 1.379 1005 1.386 1.249 0.150 0.762 0.212 0.125

8

Rest of India

 1.131 980 1.108 0.741 0.089 0.467 0.111 0.074
 

Grand Total

109.714

 1047 114.907 102.590 13.868 58.437 17.921

12.364

 

A detailed report of the field survey giving State-wise/Division-wise/District-wise area under soybean cultivation in Kharif 2017 is attached.