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.

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• 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.

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• 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, agriculture-based 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 priceAverage yield,

India(2010)

World's most productive farms(2010)

Rank Product (2009 prices, US$) (US$ / kilogram) (tonnes per hectare)

(tonnes per hectare) 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

• Lack cold storage• Lack food packaging • inefficient rural transport system• Low level of mechanization• Poorly maintained irrigation systems

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