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India's wheat output in 2015 could fall 4 per cent from a year earlier, the Minister of State for Agriculture said on Wednesday, after rains and hailstorms flattened crops in February and March.
Wheat output in India, the world's second-biggest producer, touched 96 million tonnes in 2014.
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan also said the Government has put in place a contingency plan to deal with expectations of below-average June-September monsoon rains this year.
India is expected to see below-average rains in 2015 as the emergence of an El Nino weather pattern will likely cause dry spells across South Asia.
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