The government is expecting to levy import duty on sugar harvest in the month of August as it anticipates a buffer crop, the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar expressed on Saturday.

He further added that they shall be gathering the sowing information by the first week of August and after that they shall decide upon the issue. He also voiced that the sowing data offered by this date has been very promoting.

Coming up with the matter of rice sowing, the region is hooked up from 6.8 million hectares to 7.2 million, and for jowar from 7.3 million hectares to 9.7 million hectares, bajra has jumped up from 1.28 million hectares to 1.81 million, sugarcane from 4.1 million hectares to 4.7 million whilst the ground coming under for cotton has developed from 4.8 million hectares to 6.6 million hectares.

Upon questioning related to the present modification in weather conditions and how would the same shall affect the crop production, he expressed that as per the meteorological department evaluation, the nation is projected to get 98 percent rain in July and 102 percent in August. Moreover if the report stands to be true, then there might not be any issue related to the harvest.