India's ag output growth predicted to remain steady at 4%
"The agriculture growth rate of 4 per cent, which we are expecting for 2016-17, will be maintained this year too," India’s secretary for the farm ministry, Shobhana Pattanayak, said in New Delhi.
The government has also prepared contingency plans for 623 districts in 28 states to help farmers deal with lower output in the event of scanty rains, or the delayed onset of the monsoons, officials said. "The seed requirement for kharif is 154 lakh quintals, while we have 176 lakh quintals of seeds," said the agriculture ministry. Around 83.46 lakh quintals of paddy seeds and 3.75 lakh quintals of tur dal seeds were available.
source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
