Record Wheat Output This Year May See Higher MSP Purchase By Centre As Prices Might Come Under Pressure by M R Subramani - Feb 12, 2021 11:08 AM Wheat farmers in India. (Bharat Bhushan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Snapshot The record production combined with a new high of carryover stocks could keep prices well below MSP. India could again harvest a record wheat production this year with the area under the crop touching a new high and weather being projected to be conducive. The development comes despite farmers in key-wheat growing states of Punjab, Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh staging protests on the border of the national capital region Delhi against the farm reforms acts passed by the Union government in September last year.