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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rains good for wheat: Yadav

Rains good for wheat: Yadav

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published Published on Mar 4, 2011   modified Modified on Mar 4, 2011
Prolonged winter season coupled with recent rains in major wheat growing regions of north and central India is likely to push up country's wheat production to a record level of more than 82 million tonne this year.

“So far the weather has been kind this year” Arun Yadav, minister of state for agriculture said on Thursday after inaugurating Krishi Vigyan Mela, adding that the current spell of light rain was good for wheat crop. He said that he expected a better harvest this year.

However, he cautioned that if rains continue in the coming weeks then harvesting might get delayed. Wheat harvests in India usually starts in the last week of March.

Major wheat-growing regions of the country witnessed intense cold wave during December-January. Temperature in Punjab and Haryana, which produce around 80% of the total wheat produced in the country had been hovering around 5 to 7 degrees below normal, during the last winter months.

Yadav said the recent incident of frost in Madhy Pradesh has not largely impacted the wheat crop. Madhya Pradesh produced about 10% of the country's wheat production.

Recently, Madhya Pradesh state agriculture minister Ramkrishna Kusumaria had said, “We will have a bumper production this year and the production in the state is likely to cross last year’s output of 84 lakh tonne as acreage has gone up in the state”.

HS Gupta, director, Indian Agricultural Research Institute also, stated, “Weather is fine for wheat crop, unlike last year and the recent rains in north India is proving beneficial to wheat crop.” Due to good weather condition, production this year will be above 82 million tonne. But definitely it will be not less than 82 million tonne, Gupta said. But the rain should stop now to harvest takes place by the month end, he added

Riding high on expansion in area under wheat and favourable weather, the government has pegged a record production of 81.47 million tonne for this year.

The Financial Express, 4 March, 2011, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Rains-good-for-wheat--Yadav/757586/


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