Low rainfall, high sowing costs likely to reduce Uttar Pradesh wheat production by 25%.

Wheat production from the fields of Greater Noida and western UP could fall by up to 25% in the next production cycle. This significant fall in production, states KSS, is a predictable trend emerging from all major wheat-growing regions in the country. With a decline in rainfall and increase in costs of planting wheat, many farmers have planted cash crops like gram in at least 25% of their land.