26.04.2012 | permalink
Increasing yields will help farmers harvest a record 270 million tonnes of grains in the 2016/17 crop year, leaving an exportable surplus of 10 million tonnes, Farm Secretary Prabeer Kumar Basu told Reuters. India, the world’s second-biggest rice and wheat producer, is struggling to store grains as bins overflow after years of bumper harvests. [...] “There is no need for us to adopt switch on, switch off policy on exports of grains as we can be a regular supplier of 10 million tonnes by 2016/17,” Basu said. “At least, we can feed our neighbours.”