Wheat output in India may climb to record high for fourth year
Wheat production in India, the second-biggest grower, may advance 6.4 percent to a record for a fourth year after favorable weather and high prices boosted planting, a government official said. Output may climb to 86 million metric tons in the year ending June 30 compared with 80.8 million tons the year earlier, P.K. Basu, Agriculture Secretary, said in an interview on Monday in New Delhi.
Publication Date:
14/06/2011