<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Agriculture Ministry has released the third advance estimate of production of major agricultural crops for 2021-22.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The production of Foodgrains in the country is estimated at a record 314.51 million tonnes which is higher by 3.77 million tonnes than the production of foodgrain during 2020-21. The production during 2021-22 is higher by 23.80 million tonnes than the previous five years' average production of foodgrains. Record production is estimated for rice, maize, pulses, oilseeds, gram, rapeseed, mustard, and sugarcane.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that this record production of so many crops is the result of the farmer-friendly policies of the Central Government under the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as tireless hard work of the farmers and the diligence of the scientists.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Total production of Rice during 2021-22 is estimated at a record 129.66 million tonnes. It is higher by 13.23 million tonnes than the last five years' average production of 116.43 million tonnes.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Production of Wheat during 2021-22 is estimated at 106.41 million tonnes. It is higher by 2.53 million tonnes than the last five years' average wheat production of 103.88 million tonnes.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Production of Nutri or Coarse Cereals is estimated at 50.70 million tonnes, which is higher by 4.12 million tonnes than the last five years' average production of 46.57 million tonnes.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Total Pulses production during 2021-22 is estimated at a record 27.75 million tonnes which is higher by 3.92 million tonnes than the last five years' average production of 23.82 million tonnes.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Total Oilseeds production in the country during 2021-22 is estimated at a record 38.50 million tonnes which is higher by 2.55 million tonnes than the production of 35.95 million tonnes during 2020-21. Further, the production of oilseeds during 2021-22 is higher by 5.81 million tonnes than the average oilseeds production.                                        </span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Total production of Sugarcane in the country during 2021-22is estimated at a record 430.50 million tonnes which is higher by 57.04 million tonnes than the average sugarcane production of 373.46 million tonnes.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Production of Cotton and Jute and Mesta is estimated at 31.54 million bales each of 170 kg and 10.22 million bales each of 180 kg.</span></p>