India is likely to produce 90.6 million tons rice in 2015-16 from summer-sown crop , a tad lower than last year on account of drought, the government said in its first advance estimate. Paddy crop has been planted on 36.84 million hectares against 36.65 million hectares a year ago. Rainfall were 16 percent below average so far in the country over four-months monsoon.
