Farmers already harvested 38% of wheat area in India, minister says
In India, Business Standard reported that India has harvested 38% of the total wheat area of an estimated 32 million hectare so far in the ongoing 2025-26 marketing season, according to the country’s Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Wheat “harvesting conditions are better” in key growing states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Bihar, the minister said in a statement.
The government has set a wheat procurement target of 31 million tons for the 2025-26 marketing season (April-March).
Category: Food & Agriculture
