date:Jun 06, 2013
are getting reports of ample rainfall in cane growing areas of northern Karnataka. Certainly it will help the crop, said an official at the state's farm department, who declined to be named.
The drought had hit cultivation of the water-intensive crop. Farmers have cane on 4.12 million hectares as on May 31, down 10 percent compared with the same period a year ago, farm ministry data showed.
The planting pace in Maharashtra was worrying ... If the monsoon spread is normal, then the planting for