Crop production in India

June 10, 2011 November 22, 2013

In 1951-52 India’s total food grain production was 51 million tonnes. In 2007-08 total food grain production was 230.8 million tons.

Since independence India’s food grain production has increased by 4.5 times.
National target for food grains production was fixed at 239.10 million tonnes for the year 2009-10.

However, as per the fourth advance estimates of crop productions released in July 2010, total food grain production in 2009-10 is likely to be 218.2 million ton. The following table summarizes the data.

*crop*	*2008-09* *final estimates*	*2009-10* *3rd advance estimates*	*2009-10* *4th advance estimates*
Rice	99.18	89.31	89.13
wheat	80.68	80.98	80.71
Coarse Cereals	40.03	33.13	33.77
Total Cereals	219.90	203.42	203.61
Pulses	14.57	14.77	14.59
Total food Grains	234.47	218.19	218.20
Oil Seeds	27.72	25.41	24.93
Cotton*	22.28	22.83	23.94
jute **	9.63	10.49	10.70
mesta **	0.73	0.62	0.59
jute & mesta **	10.37	11.10	11.29
sugarcane (cane)	285.03	274.66	277.75
(Million Tonnes) * Million bales of 170 kgs. each ** Million bales of 180 kgs. each

The following table compares the production of food grains, Oil seeds, Sugarcane, Jute & Potato in 1951-52 and 2008-09.

*crop*	*1951-52*	2008-09
Rice	21	99	4.71
wheat	6	78	13
Total food Grains	51	230	4.5
Oil Seeds	6	28	5.6
Cotton*	3	23	7.7
Potato	3	28	9.3
jute & mesta **	3	10	3.7
sugarcane (cane)	57	289	5.1
(Million Tonnes) * Million bales of 170 kgs. each ** Million bales of 180 kgs. each

Total food grains production in India has increased by 4.5 times since first five year plan
Among wheat and rice, production of wheat has increased to 13 folds. This is because of green revolution which was mainly confined to wheat.
The increase in production is also due to increase in the irrgable land so actual increase in real terms has been less than the above data.

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