date:May 21, 2014
India is likely to produce 264.38 million tonnes of food grains during 2013-14 (includes kharif 2013 and rabi 2013-14 crops), according to the Indian agriculture ministry.
In the earlier estimates (2nd Advance Estimates) released by the agriculture ministry in February 2014, the total food grain production was pegged at 263.2 million tonne.
The current production estimates is 7 million tonnes higher than the production last year. During 2012-13, food production was recorded at 257.13 million t