Cotton-Groundnut: Saurashtra accounts for 86% of sowing
By yash chouhan 2025-08-04 16:20:44
Saurashtra News Analysis: Cotton and groundnut account for 86% of district sowing
After receiving more than 82% rainfall in the district this year, cotton, groundnut and millet sowing is being done.
Due to continuous rains this year, cotton sowing has not been completed as expected till the end of July. However, this year too, total Kharif sowing in Gohilwad has been done on 3,65,700 hectares of land. Cotton and groundnut have the largest share in Kharif sowing every year in Bhavnagar district.
This tradition continues this year as well. Cotton contributes 55.76% of total sowing and groundnut 30.46%, making the share of these two crops in total sowing of Gohilwad 86.22%. While the remaining 13.78 percent includes all other crops like millet, tur, moong, urad, vegetables, jowar.
Cotton sowing in Bhavnagar district accounts for 55.76 percent. Cotton has been sown on 2,03,900 hectares of land, while peanut sowing is 30.46 percent of the total sown area and the total sown area of peanut has been 1,11,400 hectares.
Due to waterlogging in the fields after the release of water from the dam and continuous rains, cotton sowing has not been as much as it should have been till the end of July as compared to last year.
Cotton is first in the total sown area in Bhavnagar district, in which cotton is first, similarly Sagar is also first in cotton sowing area in Saurashtra.
Cotton has been sown in 20,16,800 hectares in the entire state, in which Saurashtra alone contributes 14,75,300 hectares, i.e. Saurashtra contributes 73.15 percent of the cotton sown in the entire state, and the rest of the state contributes 26.85 percent.
Cotton has been sown in 20,16,800 hectares in the state, out of which Saurashtra alone has 14,75,300 hectares, and the total sown area at present in Bhavnagar district is 3,65,700 hectares, and cotton is also in the first place in sowing area, and similarly, cotton is in the first place in sowing area in entire Saurashtra.
Cotton has been sown in 20,16,800 hectares in the entire state, out of which Saurashtra alone has contributed 14,75,300 hectares, i.e. Saurashtra's contribution in the cotton sown in the entire state is 73.15 percent, and the rest of the state's contribution is 26.85 percent.
