As per Ministry of Agriculture, so far Maize has been sown in an area of 6.01 lakh hectares up by more than 6% than the last year area of 5.62 lakh hectares sown at the same time. Sowing has started in Karnataka, Jammu &Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
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