India's total food grains production is estimated at over 251 million tonnes in 2014-15 crop year. The estimate is lowered by nearly 14 million tonnes than last year's record of of 265 million tonnes. Releasing the third advance estimates for 2014-15, the Agriculture Ministry today said that the production of most of the Kharif crops fell because of the poor monsoon in 2014 and rabi crops due to the recent unseasonal rain and hailstorms. As per the estimates, rice production is estimated to have fallen to 102.54 million tonnes in 2014-15 against the record output of 106.65 million tonnes in the previous year. Wheat output is estimated to have declined to 90.78 million tonnes in 2014-15 as against a record production 95.85 million tonnes achieved in the previous year. It said, total production of Coarse Cereals is estimated at 40.42 million tonnes which is lower by 2.87 million tonnes. Production of pulses is estimated at 17.38 million tonnes which is lower by 1.87 million tonnes than last year. With a decrease of 5.37 million tonnes over the last year, total production of oil seeds in the country is estimated at 27.38 million tonnes. Production of sugarcane is estimated at 356.56 million tonnes which is higher by 4.42 million tonnes as compared to last year. As per the second Advance Estimates, the government had estimated 257.07 million tonnes foodgrains production in 2014-15 crop year.