Production of fruits and vegetables may fall down

Farmers in Maharashtra have informed the first advance estimates of the National Horticulture Board that the state can enter its fruits and vegetable production in 2018-19 crop year (July-June). Fruit production in a 2018-19 crop year is expected from 117 lakh tonnes to 99.92 lakh tonnes in 2017-18. Production of vegetables can fall to 7 lakh tonnes (116 lakh tonnes) in 2018-19, compared to 123 lakh tons of crop last year.

Experts are unanimous that the state of drought and changing weather conditions are the main reasons for the potential decline in vegetable and fruit production. Erotic weather influences the crops in many ways, apart from this, they affect their flowering and flowering. Delayed monsoon, during long periods of drought during monsoon, rain on sick time, the excessive temperature during flowering and adverse effects of fruits and adverse effects of hailstorm crops.

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An official of the Agriculture Department said that drought-like situation was the biggest factor in Maharashtra which affected the fruits and vegetables, which affected major crops like chillies, onions, tomatoes and potatoes. “There is no sowing in many places in the absence of water and other irrigation zones are 0.68% sources. Rabi grain sowing decreases by 59% compared to the average level.

Sahyadri Farmer Producer Group director Vilas Shinde told TOI, “Many farmers are shifting from vegetables and fruits due to inconvenient market conditions. There are such years when a commodity is sold at a higher price, while in other years the prices hit rock bottom. As a result, farmers tend to safe crops like sugarcane, maize and soybean. ”

Chairman of Vegetable Growers Association of India, Shri Ram Garhve said that in the last one year, there has been a lot of increase in temperature, fruits and vegetables have affected the crops. “In the year 2018-19, the winter was very extreme, frost and ice sheets were made in parts of the state at night with vegetables and fruits. In February, the temperature decreased. Now, the heat of March is becoming intolerable. The temperature has already started crossing 40 degrees Celsius.