date:May 23, 2014
However, unless concerted efforts are made to fight the vagaries of weather, risk of pests and diseases and poor productivity in most wheat producing states, it is difficult to achieve higher wheat production targets on a consistent basis, Assocham study stressed.
Wheat procurement is largely restricted only to Haryana and Punjab as other states despite having significant share in wheat production have poor share in wheat procurement owing to inadequate infrastructure and lower marketable surpl