Drought is recurring feature in Bundelkhand region of Madhya
Pradesh. It was noted that this region out of 5 year 3 year is generally
drought year. Micro level drought analyses of past two decades indicate that
frequency of occurrence of terminal and early season drought has increased. The
frequent monsoon breaks of 4 to 10 days just after onset; creates a moisture
stress accomplice with high soil temperature at 10 cm (> 35°C); which
severely affects the soybean crop in its establishment stage. This feature is monsoon delayed the sowing of
kharif crops in this region and generally large number of farmers start
their sowing after first week of July. Thus they lose the 15 to 20 days of crop
/rainy season and again after 20 August monsoon break starts, and number of
days above of air temperature above 35°C increases which finally affects the
seed development. Thus the farmers have only 50-60 day of crop growing season
in this region during kharif season. Till now under rainfed
conditions no any soybean cultivar is available, which have maturity period of
60-70 days. The trend of decreasing
number of rainy days also is remarkable, the rainy days has decreased from 50
days up to 35-40 days. Thus the soybean production in Bundelkhand region of
Madhya Pradesh is in full grip of the gamble of monsoon and crop cultivation
under rainfed condition is a risky business for farmers.
This year of kharif 2018; the same situation is
prevailing and farmers are waiting for heavy and widespread rainfall (> 60mm/day).
Many farmers have sown their crops but still many farmers waiting for fairly
widespread medium to heavy rainfall spell for the crop sowing. Today soil
temperature at 10 cm depth at 11.30 AM is 36.3°C with partly cloudy sky.
Widespread rainfall spell will be expected after 24-36 hours, hope this will
continue for 2-3 days and farmers may be able to sow their crops during this
week end.
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