Wheat,India price supplier

Wheat...!!!

India is now the second largest producer of wheat in the world and produced a record 76.3 million tons (MT) during crop year 1999–2000. Due to this, India did export some sizable amount to reduce the size of the bulging buffer2. But in the last few years in a row, there has been a wide gap between the target and actual wheat production. Following the peak production of 1999–2000 crop season, there was a growing confidence that India would soon produce 78 MT of wheat and will achieve the 109 MT target requirement by 2020.

The total procurement of wheat ranges from 8 to 14 million tonnes, accounting for about 11 to 20 per cent of the total production. The government system handles only a small proportion of the total wheat production and private merchants handle the large proportion. Yet the support price operation and the PDS play a significant role in maintaining reasonable and stable food grain prices in the country for both the producers and consumers

India’s wheat production increase is driven principally by yield growth and by shift in production from other crops to wheat and an increase in cropping intensity. Among the major factors that affect yield, fertilizer use appears to have less effect in recent years while expansion in irrigated and high yielding variety (HYV) area seem to play a more important role in raising yield.

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