Wheat is the main rabi crop, harvesting of which will begin from next month
Current Affairs: India is set to gather a record wheat creation of 106.21 million ton in the 2019-20 yield year on the rear of good rains, as indicated by most recent government information.
Wheat creation has been rising year-on-year and the past record of 103.60 million ton was accomplished during the 2018-19 harvest year (July-June).
Wheat is the primary rabi (winter) crop, collecting of which will start from one month from now.
Discharging the second gauge of foodgrain creation, Agriculture Ministry said the combined precipitation in the nation during the rainstorm season (June-September 2019) was 10 percent higher than the Long Period Average (LPA).
Appropriately, the creation of the vast majority of the yields for the 2019-20 harvest year has been assessed higher than their ordinary creation, it stated, and added these evaluations are dependent upon modification by virtue of increasingly exact data streaming over the time.
According to the subsequent gauge, all out foodgrain creation is pegged at a record 291.95 million ton for 2019-20 yield year, higher than 285.21 million ton a year ago.
Of the all out creation, foodgrain yield is evaluated to be 142.36 million ton from the kharif (summer) season and 149.60 million ton from the rabi period of this current year.
Foodgrain bin contains wheat, rice, oats and pulses.
Aditi Mehta 