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India Set For Bumper Foodgrains Production This Year With Record Harvest Of Rice, Wheat: Agriculture Ministry
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The nation is set to record an all-time high food output totalling 292 million tonnes (mt) in 2019-20 fiscal, which would be higher than the previous fiscal's 285.21 mt, reports Hindu Businessline.
As per the second advance estimates of foodgrains production released by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer's Welfare, the surge in national food output is being led by a record harvest of both rice and wheat in the ongoing year.
While the rice output is expected to be 117.47 mt (against 116.48 mt in 2018-19), that of wheat is slated to hit best-ever 106.21 mt (103.60 mt).
Among the oilseeds, the production of groundnut is expected to register major gain, with the production figure likely to surge from 6.73 mt in 2018-19 to 8.24 mt in the ongoing year.
Similarly, the production of coarse cereals is also projected to register a surge of 5 per cent led by a bumper production of jowar and maize. Jowar output is set to jump up by nearly one mt to 4.38 mt and the maize output is expected to surpass 28 mt.
