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New Delhi: On 14 August when the Union ministry of agriculture released the fourth advance estimate of crop production for 2013-14, it gave the country reason to cheer: in 2013-14 India had achieved a record food grain production of 264 million tonnes, beating the previous year’s (2012-13) 257 million tonnes.
These production figures, the most commonly used, are collected by the Department of Economics and Statistics (DES) under the Union ministry of agriculture, and are based on numerous crop-cutting experiments (CCEs) conducted across the country.
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