Transcript Agriculture in India

Agriculture in India
• India ranks second worldwide in farm output.
• Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and
fisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in
2009, about 50% of the total workforce.
• The economic contribution of agriculture to
India's GDP is steadily declining with the
country's broad-based economic growth.
• Still, agriculture is demographically the
broadest economic sector and plays a
significant role in the overall socio-economic
fabric of India.
• Per 2010 FAO world agriculture statistics, India
is the world's largest producer of many
fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, major spices,
select fresh meats, select fibrous crops such
as jute, several staples such
as millets and castor oil seed.
• India is the second largest producer
of wheat and rice, the world's major food
staples.
• India is also the world's second or third largest
producer of several dry fruits, agriculturebased textile raw materials, roots
and tuber crops, pulses,
farmed fish, eggs, coconut, sugarcane and
numerous vegetables
• India exported around 2 million metric tonnes
of wheat and 2.1 million metric tonnes of rice
in 2011 to Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh and other
regions around the world
• Aquaculture and catch fishery is amongst the
fastest growing industries in India. Between
1990 and 2010, Indian fish capture harvest
doubled, while aquaculture harvest tripled.
• In 2008, India was the world's sixth largest
producer of marine and freshwater capture
fisheries, and the second largest aquaculture
farmed fish producer.
• India exported 600,000 metric tonnes of fish
products to nearly half of all the world's
countries.
Agriculture in India, largest crops by economic value
Economic value
Unit price
(US$ /
kilogram)
Average yield,
India
(2010)
(tonnes per
hectare)
World's most productive farms
(2010)
(tonnes per
hectare)
Rank
Product
(2009 prices, US$)
Country
1
Rice
$38.42 billion
0.27
3.3
10.8
Australia
2
Buffalo milk
$24.86 billion
0.4
1.7
1.9
Pakistan
3
Cow milk
$17.13 billion
0.31
1.2
10.3
Israel
4
Wheat
$12.14 billion
0.15
2.8
8.9
Netherlands
5
Mangoes
$9 billion
0.6
6.3
40.6
Cape Verde
6
Sugar cane
$8.92 billion
0.03
66
125
Peru
7
Bananas
$8.38 billion
0.28
37.8
59.3
Indonesia
8
Cotton
$8.13 billion
1.43
1.6
4.6
Israel
9
Fresh Vegetables
$5.97 billion
0.19
13.4
76.8
USA
10
Potatoes
$5.67 billion
0.15
19.9
44.3
USA
Problems
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Lack cold storage
Lack food packaging
inefficient rural transport system
Low level of mechanization
Poorly maintained irrigation systems