India's output of wheat, the country's main summer harvested crop, is likely to surge due to ample soil moisture, timely sowing and good rains, a top farm scientist said on Wednesday. Harvest of wheat in main growing regions in northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Utter Pradesh and central Madly Pradesh is almost complete and arrivals of the grain in the markets are picking up.
"We should touch 75 million tonnes of output considering the area, sowing time and absence of high temperature," Jag Shoran, director of the state-run Wheat Research Institute, based in Karla, said in a telephone interview.
Wheat is sown in November and harvested in March and April. Agriculture makes up nearly 25 percent of the country's gross domestic product and provides a livelihood to nearly two-thirds of its billion-plus people.
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