India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first two months of the financial year 2017-18 (started April 1) it produced 5.63 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 12.8 percent year on year. The company's iron ore sales in the given period amounted to 6.59 million mt, rising by 32.3 percent year on year.