Indore : According to Satellite survey, the area under Soybean cultivation in Madhya Pradesh is 56.127 lakh hectares, as compared to Government’s figure of 59.062 lakh hectares. SOPA has estimated the production at 44 lakh ton which is 7.604 lakh ton less than the preceding year.
The Soybean Processors Association (SOPA) an apex body of the soybean processors released its estimates for area under soybean cultivation, Production and Productivity for Kharif 2015 on Wednesday. The Association has also revised its estimates of Kharif 2014 soybean crop for the country to 90 lakh ton. The carryover of Soybean from last year is estimated at 9 lakh tons.
This year SOPA conducted Satellite based survey to ascertain the area under soybean cultivation in 58 major Soybean growing districts in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. For rest of the country, Government’s area figures have been considered.
To access the estimates of Productivity and Production, an extensive survey of standing and under harvest crop was conducted in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan during 15th September, 2015 to 24th September, 2015. To calculate the realistic Productivity and Production of Soybean, all the major factors have been taken into account.
According to Satellite survey, the area under Soybean Cultivation is 110.656 lakh hectares in the country, which is 5.629 lakh hectares less than Government of India’s figure of 116.285 lakh hectares. According to SOPA’s assessment, the production estimates of Soybean during kharif 2015 is 86.426 lakh ton, which is 3.574 lakh ton down (3.97 per cent) as compared to previous years revised estimates of 90 lakh ton.
Maharashtra:
The government has released the area under soybean cultivation in Maharashtra as 37.739 lakh hectare. As per SOPA’s satellite survey, the area under soybean cultivation in Maharashtra is 35.852 lakh hectares. The production is estimated to be 27.835 lakh ton which is 3.835 lakh ton higher (15.98 per cent) as compared to previous years revised estimates of 24 lakh ton.
Rajasthan:
In Rajasthan according to Satellite Survey the area under Soybean Cultivation during Kharif 2015 is 10.241 lakh hectares as compared to 11.047 lakh hectare of government’s figure. The estimated production will be 9.292 lakh ton which is 2.653 lakh ton higher than previous year’s figures of 6.639 lakh ton showing an increase of 39.96 per cent.
Other States
In Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Gujarat and other States, satellite survey was not carried out and the Area under Soybean Cultivation as per Government is 8.437 lakh hectare and a production of 5.300 lakh ton is estimated during Kharif 2015.
