India likely to harvest bumper wheat, mustard & chana crops in 2020-21

Foodgrain production is expected to rise 2% in 2020-21 season to record 303.34 mt, says govt

India’s wheat production in the coming rabi harvest is expected to be a record 109.24 million tonnes, up 1.27 per cent from last year. It is also much higher than the average production of the last five years of 100.42 million tonnes, the second advance estimate of foodgrains production for July 2020-June 2021 crop year showed.

Production of chana (gram), meanwhile, according to the second estimate, is expected to be 11.62 million tonnes, up from 11.08 million tonnes last year. It is much higher than the last five-year average production of 9.77 million tonnes.

Mustard output, which is another key rabi crop