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In A Big Boost To Indian Agriculture, Nation Achieves Record Foodgrain Production
Rice Harvesting In Srinagar (Photo by Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
The country’s foodgrain production is estimated to have scaled to a record level of 284 million tonnes in the 2017-18 crop year that ended this June. The growth has been powered by record outputs in wheat, rice, coarse cereals - mainly maize- and pulses following a normal monsoon.
The Agriculture Ministry’s data pegged the wheat output pegged at an all-time high of 99.70 million tonnes, while rice production was estimated at 112.91 million tonnes. Pulses production was pegged at 25.23 million tonnes.
The coarse cereal output is estimated at record 46.99 million tonnes with maize production scaling to 28.72 million tonnes. The production of urad, tur and gram have also scaled record highs in what has been a very productive year for the Indian foodgrain sector.
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