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Food output may drop this year amid price rise concerns -Zia Haq

-Hindustan Times

Planting of key kharif or summer-sown crops, which account for half of the country’s annual food output, was 1.5% lower on August 26 compared to last year, according to farm ministry data

India’s food output is likely to fall after six straight record harvests, as extreme weather dented sowing of crops, such as rice and pulses, raising concerns about inflation and tight supplies, data from the farm ministry indicates.

Planting of key kharif or summer-sown crops, which account for half of the country’s annual food output, was 1.5% lower on August 26 compared to last year, according to data. The total area sown stood at 104.5 million hectares.

India recorded its hottest March this year. This cut winter wheat production, officially estimated to be the lowest in three years at 106 million tonnes.

Now, acreage of summer rice has shrunk nearly 6%, as on August 26 compared to last year due to patchy rains, the data showed. Planting of rice stood at 36.7 million hectares versus 39 million hectares in the previous year.

Farmers sowed pulses, considered essential commodities, in 12.7 million hectares, down 5.2% compared to the 13.4 million hectares planted last year, according to the data.

The June-to-September monsoon, which waters nearly 60% of the country’s net-sown area, has been quite uneven, damaging crops. Overall, the rains have been 7% surplus till August 28 since monsoon onset on June 1, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed.

However, rainfall has been scanty in many states, causing drought. In several others, excess rains led to flooding. Rains in West Bengal, the country’s largest rice grower, were 28% deficient. Other paddy-growing states too had large rainfall deficits, such as Uttar Pradesh (-44%), Bihar (-40%) and Jharkhand (-28%), stunting paddy crops.

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