Bumper production

The government on Tuesday upgraded the food grain estimate for 201617 from 27198 million tonne MT to 27338 million tonne in its third estimate predicting a record production of major crops including wheat rice pulses and coarse cereals

Updated At : 06:19 AM May 10, 2017 IST

The government on Tuesday upgraded the food grain estimate for 2016-17 from 271.98 million tonne (MT) to 273.38 million tonne in its third estimate, predicting a record production of major crops, including wheat, rice, pulses and coarse cereals.

Attributing the record production of food grains to a ‘very good’ rainfall during the 2016 monsoon and policy initiatives taken by it, the Agriculture Ministry said the production was estimated at 273.38 MT—higher by 8.34 MT (3.15 per cent) over the previous record of 265.04 MT achieved during 2013-14. TNS

Estimated output for 2016-17

Wheat: 97.44 million tonne

Rice: 109.15 million tonne

Pulse: 22.4 million tonne

Sugarcane: 306.03 million tonne

Coarse cereals: 44.39 million tonne

Oil seeds: 32.52 million tonne