This is why India need Farm and Agricultural reforms. India can produce far more wheat (both for domestic usage and export) if they industrialize their agriculture.
Which reforms?
India already produces a lot of Wheat, and the Gov was sure about it's ability to feed India as well as the World. Hence a month ago, it declared it was ready to export and feed the World.
The lesson here is not about Agricultural reforms, but about Government reforms. It's ability to collect and analyze the data properly.
But primarily, its also about the need to address the increase in heat due to Climate Change. That's what lead to lower production this year, which the Gov did not factor in into their calculations.
To begin with, getting rid of land ceiling laws which results in farmer suicides (but that’s not the reason why it should be removed, they should be removed because they make agriculture very inefficient by putting an artificial limit on how much land a farmer can own).
Infosys can own 5000 acres of land for a golf course but they cannot own 5000 acres of agricultural land.