Can't find the stats for current year, but should be fairly close to 2020, maybe faster due to the recent heat.
New Delhi, April 25, 2020- Wheat harvesting is in full swing in the major producing states of Punjab and Haryana in the ongoing rabi season while it is close to finish elsewhere. Wheat is the major rabi crop in India and the country is to harvest a record crop of over 106.21 million tonnes in the crop season 2019-20 (July-June), according to the second advance estimates. As reported by the States about 98-99 per cent of wheat crop has been harvested in in Madhya Pradesh, 90-92 per cent in Rajasthan, 82-85 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 50-55 per cent in Haryana, 45-50 per cent in Punjab and 86-88 per cent in other States, said Union Agriculture Ministry in an official statement on Friday.
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