India to harvest record rice, wheat crops
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Splash
    • Videos
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Saturday
August 13, 2022

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Splash
    • Videos
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022
India to harvest record rice, wheat crops

South Asia

Reuters
18 February, 2020, 08:35 pm
Last modified: 18 February, 2020, 08:39 pm

Related News

  • Retail inflation in India dips to five-month low in July
  • Delhi to enforce mask mandate again after spurt in Covid cases
  • Jagdeep Dhankhar takes oath as 14th Vice President of India
  • Google opposes Facebook-backed proposal for self-regulatory body in India
  • India begins trial run for trans-shipment of goods to NE via Bangladesh port

India to harvest record rice, wheat crops

Rice output in the world’s biggest exporter and No. 2 producer is estimated to rise by 0.9 percent to 117.47 million tonnes

Reuters
18 February, 2020, 08:35 pm
Last modified: 18 February, 2020, 08:39 pm
A veiled woman farmer harvests a wheat crop in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer in Rajasthan, April 4, 2015. REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma/Files
A veiled woman farmer harvests a wheat crop in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer in Rajasthan, April 4, 2015. REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma/Files

India is expected to produce a record 106.21 million tonnes of wheat this year, the farm ministry said, as favourable weather conditions helped to improve crop yields, with output far exceeding demand and further boosting stocks at grain bins.

Wheat output in India, the world's second-biggest producer, is expected to go up by 2.5 percent in the crop year to June 2020, the farm ministry said in its second crop forecast for 2019/20.

Rice output in the world's biggest exporter and No. 2 producer is estimated to rise by 0.9 percent to 117.47 million tonnes.

The farm ministry forecast this year's total grains output at a record 291.95 million tonnes against 285.21 million tonnes produced in the previous year.

Output of rapeseed, the main winter oilseed with the highest oil content, is expected at 9.11 million tonnes, higher than a target of 8.23 million tonnes but lower than previous year's production of 9.26 million tonnes.

Production of chickpea, a popular variety of pulses, is likely to be 11.22 million tonnes against 9.94 million tonnes harvested in the previous year.

Any increase in rapeseed and chickpeas production cuts imports of expensive vegetable oils and pulses - the commodities that are in short supply in India, the world's biggest importer of both cooking oils and protein-rich pulses.

Also, repeated bumper harvests of rice and wheat - thanks to high-yielding seed varieties, increasing farm mechanisation and good weather conditions - have bumped up local supplies.

Brim-full granaries have hardly any extra space to accommodate new season harvests that will start trickling in from next month, exposing food stocks to rains and rodents, India's leading farm economists and farm trade policy experts said.

World+Biz

India

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Ctg megaprojects get costlier from rising dollar, faulty plan
    Ctg megaprojects get costlier from rising dollar, faulty plan
  • Salman Rushdie. Photo: BBC
    Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York
  • Not easy to have a meal of fish, egg, meat these days
    Not easy to have a meal of fish, egg, meat these days

MOST VIEWED

  • Flags of India and China. Photo: Collected
    India sticks to 'one-China' policy stance but seeks restraint on Taiwan
  • FILE PHOTO: A vendor sorts tomatoes as he waits for customers at a vegetable market in Mumbai, India, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
    Retail inflation in India dips to five-month low in July
  • A motorist passes by a mural of frontline workers against coronavirus at RK Puram in New Delhi on July 25. Delhi’s Covid-19 recoveries have outstripped new cases on almost all days this month barring a few exceptions, after ramped-up containment and testing efforts over the past month or so. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
    Delhi to enforce mask mandate again after spurt in Covid cases
  • Influential cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani. Photo: BBC
    Taliban cleric killed in blast in Kabul
  • FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa presents his national statement as a part of the World Leaders' Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
    Sri Lanka's ousted president arrives in Thailand for temporary stay
  • India's Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. Photo: HT
    Jagdeep Dhankhar takes oath as 14th Vice President of India

Related News

  • Retail inflation in India dips to five-month low in July
  • Delhi to enforce mask mandate again after spurt in Covid cases
  • Jagdeep Dhankhar takes oath as 14th Vice President of India
  • Google opposes Facebook-backed proposal for self-regulatory body in India
  • India begins trial run for trans-shipment of goods to NE via Bangladesh port

Features

Some species of mantises resemble flowers, with just one exception — they hunt. Photo: Collected

Mantis memoir: A master predator

17h | Earth
Bye bye! Photographer: Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images North America via Bloomberg

Three major takeaways from the FBI search on Trump’s home

1d | Panorama
Photo: Noor A Alam/TBS

Big dreams in small rooms: The aspiring nurses of Geneva Camp

1d | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

How to deal with toxic people at work

1d | Pursuit

More Videos from TBS

The ship that was sunk to kill a journalist

The ship that was sunk to kill a journalist

8h | Videos
What's next after searching Trump's house

What's next after searching Trump's house

18h | Videos
Dollar rate increasing in open market despite various initiatives by central bank

Dollar rate increasing in open market despite various initiatives by central bank

18h | Videos
Salimullah Khan on Joddopi Amar Guru

Salimullah Khan on Joddopi Amar Guru

18h | Videos

Most Read

1
Dollar crisis: BB orders removal of 6 banks’ treasury chiefs 
Banking

Dollar crisis: BB orders removal of 6 banks’ treasury chiefs 

2
Photo: Collected
Transport

Will Tokyo’s traffic model solve Dhaka’s gridlocks?

3
Diesel price hiked by Tk34 per litre, Octane by Tk46
Energy

Diesel price hiked by Tk34 per litre, Octane by Tk46

4
Representational Image. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Air passengers should plan extra commute time to airport: DMP

5
Arrest warrant against Habib Group chairman, 4 others 
Crime

Arrest warrant against Habib Group chairman, 4 others 

6
File Photo: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid
Energy

All factories to remain closed once a week under rationing system

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2022
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]