India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first eight months of the financial year 2015-16 (started April 1) it produced 17.50 million mt of iron ore, registering a decrease of 8.3 percent year on year. The company's iron ore sales in the given period amounted to 17.72 million mt, down 10.86 percent year on year.