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India’s rural distress set to worsen -Sayantan Bera

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The ministry of agriculture projected that foodgrain production of cereal and pulses was likely to decline by 5.3% in 2014-15

New Delhi:
There seems to be no end rural India’s worries.

Last year’s drought together with unseasonal weather earlier this year is threatening a substantial decline in foodgrain output—the first in five years of such magnitude.

On Wednesday, the ministry of agriculture projected that foodgrain production—at 251 million tonnes (mt) of cereal and pulses was likely to decline by 5.3% in 2014-15.

A deficit monsoon in 2014 that affected production of Kharif crops and unseasonal showers in March and April that damaged the winter (Rabi) crop just ahead of harvest is expected to cause a dip in production of rice, wheat, coarse cereals and pulses, the farm ministry said.

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