Wheat sowing, which was lagging behind by 6.23 per cent till last week of this rabi season, will pick up pace in the coming weeks. Sowing of wheat, the main rabi crop, starts in October and harvesting begins in April. Farmers had sown wheat in area covering 190.87 lakh hectares till last week of the season, down by 6.23% from 203.56 lakh hectares in the year- ago period. Normally wheat is sown in 300-odd lakh hectares of land. The sowing is lagging behind in key growing states Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.