Farmers in Maharashtra have sown rabi crops over 64,782 hectares as of Monday, down 64% from 180,661 hectares sown in the corresponding period last year, according to the season's first rabi acreage report published by the state's agriculture department. The normal rabi acreage for the period, which is an average of the five years, from 2016 to 2021, is 5.4 million hectares.