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India's wheat production in crop year 2022-23 is expected to be 102.9 million tonnes (mt), less than the government's estimate of 112 mt, according to independent agri-commodity research firm Agriwatch...
The estimate is higher than last year's 97.7 mt, said Agriwatch CEO Santosh Jhanwar, adding that the estimate is a result of two rounds of field surveys, weather analysis and remote sensing data analysis from nine states and 80 districts across the country...
While Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are expected to witness a growth in wheat production, Haryana and West Bengal are expected to see a loss of 11.1% and 4.3% respectively over the previous crop year, 2021-22..
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