<h1>Advance kharif production estimates called bogus due to floods and fertiliser shortages, risking denial of insurance and compensation.</h1> The farmers' organisation challenges advance estimates of kharif 2025-26 production as misleading because they rely on prior-year yield trends and state data while widespread flood damage, crop disease and fertiliser shortages reportedly caused near-total losses in affected areas, and such inaccurate projections risk denial of crop insurance and compensation.