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India may log bumper wheat and maize output

India is likely to produce a record 115.4 million metric tonnes of wheat this year, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, making its second advance estimates. The country had banned wheat exports in 2022 after an early summer and a rise in temperatures during February and March that year shrivelled the crop. India is the world’s biggest wheat producer after China and produced 113.3 million tonnes of the winter-sown grain in 2024, according to the farm ministry. Wheat millers have urged the government to cut or scrap the 40% import duty on the grain to facilitate at least 2-3 million tonnes to end speculation in the markets, according to Navneet Chitlangia, president of Rollers Flour Millers’ Federation of India.

Hindustan Times

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