Record wheat output expected, arranging storage for harvest a worry

India is expected to harvest 291.95 mt of foodgrain in 2019-20

India is expected to produce record 106.21 million tonnes (mt) of wheat in the crop year 2019-20, according to the second Advance Estimates released on Tuesday.

Managing wheat stocks in warehouses and arranging storage for this bumper harvest, which is set to far exceed demand, could be one of the many challenges the government might encounter in 2020-21 unless quick measures are taken to liquidate a big portion of the stock in the coming months, said experts.

The data released on Tuesday showed estimated wheat production in the 2019-20 crop year, which started in July 2019, is 2.61 mt more than the