03-06-2009, 04:31 AM
<b>Rainfall in 15 days may help achieve wheat output target</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India, the world's second-biggest wheat producer, may fail to reach its output target this year unless some of the growing regions receive rain in the next two weeks, a government researcher said.
"The weather is going to be very critical in the next 15 days," Jag Shoran, director at the state-owned directorate of wheat research said in a telephone interview. "We could produce about 78 million tonne if the weather stays favourable, otherwise it could be down to 75 million tonne."
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"The weather is going to be very critical in the next 15 days," Jag Shoran, director at the state-owned directorate of wheat research said in a telephone interview. "We could produce about 78 million tonne if the weather stays favourable, otherwise it could be down to 75 million tonne."
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