Kharif prospects: Farm sector to be silver lining on the Covid cloud

This could augur well for rural India, with per hectare profitability of farmers improving 3-5% or rS 10,000 at C2 cost y-o-y.

Written by FE Bureau

August 25, 2020 08:17 IST

This could augur well for rural India, with per hectare profitability of farmers improving 3-5% or Rs 10,000 at C2 cost y-o-y.

Aided by normal and well-spread monsoon, kharif crop productivity will likely increase by ~3%, pushing output to a record high, or 5-6% y-o-y.

This could augur well for rural India, with per hectare profitability of farmers improving 3-5% or Rs 10,000 at C2 cost y-o-y.

This article was first uploaded on August twenty-five, twenty twenty, at seventeen minutes past eight in the morning.