Riding on record rice and wheat production, the country is estimated to have produced 283.37 million tonnes of food grains during 2018-19 – higher by 17.62 million tonnes than the previous five years’ (2013-14 to 2017-18) average production of food grain. However, the output is down by 1.64 million tonnes from last year’s foodgrains output of 285.01 million tonnes