With country’s farmers busy cutting paddy, the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) has said that paddy production in the ongoing fiscal year is unlikely to come down though unfavourable monsoon had inundated many paddy farmlands this year. MoAD has estimated per hectare productivity of paddy in the country to likely increase to 3.5 tonnes in 2017-18 against 3.37 tonnes per hectare productivity recorded in previous fiscal, thereby pushing up the overall production of paddy in the country. The monsoon had affected many paddy farmlands. However, with the mechanisation in paddy plantation in the country, and timely availability of manure and paddy seeds, among other reasons, we expect paddy production to increase this year.