Data from the National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture predicts wheat yields may drop by 6-25% by the year 2100, while irrigated rice yields could fall by 7% by 2050 and 10% by 2080
The government has taken an initiative to accelerate rice imports to strengthen the buffer stock of food grains and to arrest the upward trend of the staple's price.
However, the government is yet to decide the ethanol price which may soon be revised upward from ₹58.50/litre as it was fixed when FCI rice was sold at ₹20/kg in 2023-24
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