From the input to the market: the decisions behind what is grown, sold and funded.
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The 15 October Grain Market Report puts 2026/27 rice production at 536m t, down 2% and including a 6m t decline in India, and raises the total grains forecast by 7m t to 2,427m t.
Arrivals reached 21 lakh tonnes and payments Rs 2,511 crore, Punjab's food minister said, as unseasonal rain on 11 October soaked paddy in several mandis.
FAO's September index rose 1.5% on the month and 5.8% on the year. Its cereal brief, also out on 2 October, cut the 2026/27 world rice crop forecast on weaker prospects for India.
Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
