India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first eight months of the financial year 2016-17 (started April 1) it produced 20.09 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 14.8 percent year on year. The company's iron ore sales in the given period amounted to 22.59 million mt, rising by 27.5 percent year on year.