India’s rice production revised upward to 100 MT for 2012-13 crop year

15 Nov 2012 Evaluate

For the 2012-13 crop year, the country’s rice production has been revised upwards to 100 million tonnes (MT), as per the report compiled by FAO. This upward revision in production is on back of revival of rains in August and September months. India is the world’s second largest producer of rice and earlier the global body on the farm sector had forecast the rice output at 98.5 MT. This was due to late onset of monsoon rains leading to deficit in key northern and southern growing areas.

UN body Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its latest report named ‘Food Outlook’ has predicted rice output at 100 MT in 2012-13, 4 MT less than its outstanding 2011-12 season, but still the second best result in history. The country had harvested a record 104.32 MT of rice in the 2011-12 crop year (July - June).

In August and September months of the 2012 season there were fears over a possible recurrence of an El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) weather anomaly and slow progress of the monsoon rains in India.

In 2011-12 the world had produced 482.7 MT of the staple and according to the latest FAO forecasts, the world rice production in 2012 is poised to rise 0.7% to a new high of 486 MT, which is 2 MT higher than foreseen in September, 2012.

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