The productivity of Indian agriculture, however, witnessed a fatigue with the average growth rate of production of wheat, rice and foodgrains during 1990–2010 coming down to 2.6 per cent, 1.4 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively.
This was due to stagnancy in yield  2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  of wheat, rice and foodgrains which grew at an average rate of 1.7 per cent, 1.2 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively, during the same period.