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First Advance Estimates of production of major kharif crops
September 27 , 2022
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- The Centre has released the first-ever advance estimates of production of major Kharif crops.
- The recently released estimates predict the production of 149.92 million tonnes of food grains in the country.
- This is lesser than the target of 163.15 million tonne for the Kharif 2022-23 season and the production of 156.04 million tonnes during the last kharif season (2021).
- During the last kharif season, the total kharif foodgrain production was 150.58 million tonnes.
- The rice production is expected to be 104.99 million tonnes.
- It is higher by 4.40 million tonnes than the average production of Kharif rice in the last five years from 2016-17 to 2020-21.
- However, it is 6 per cent lesser than the production of 111.76 million tonnes during the last season.
- The maize production is expected to reach 23.10 million tonnes.
- The oilseeds production is expected to stand at 23.57 million tonnes,
- The total production of sugarcane in 2022-23 is expected to reach 465.05 million tonnes.
- The total pulses production is expected to reach 8.37 million tonnes.
- It is higher by 91.59 million tonnes than average sugarcane production of 373.46 million tonnes.
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