An incongruous situation has arisen in the State with regard to paddy cultivation during the current Samba season.
Despite this year’s southwest monsoon having yielded higher rainfall for the State and irrigation reservoirs having comfortable storage, the coverage of paddy is about 90,000 hectares short of what was achieved in 2021.
The primary reason is the fall in coverage reported in the non-Cauvery delta region, which has raised paddy over approximately 2 lakh hectares against about 2.82 lakh hectares last year. There has been a drop of about 70,000 hectares.
