date:Jan 17, 2014
have planted wheat on a record 31.14 million hectares, up from 29.65 million hectares in the previous year, said Indu Sharma, chief of the state-run Directorate of Wheat Research in Haryana, a major wheat growing state.
Crop condition is excellent. Colour is good. There are signs that the crop will be more than 100 million tonnes, Sharma said.
The Indian government buys grains from local farmers at fixed prices to protect them from any distress sale and build stockpiles to sell subsidised food