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Area and Production

The document provides key statistics about agriculture in India, including that the total geographical area is 329 MHA, net sown area is 139.4 MHA, and Uttar Pradesh has the highest production of food grains, sugarcane, and oilseeds. It also discusses India's position as the top global producer of many crops like spices, pulses, and cotton. The document outlines India's fertilizer consumption and production of organic farming.

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Area and Production

The document provides key statistics about agriculture in India, including that the total geographical area is 329 MHA, net sown area is 139.4 MHA, and Uttar Pradesh has the highest production of food grains, sugarcane, and oilseeds. It also discusses India's position as the top global producer of many crops like spices, pulses, and cotton. The document outlines India's fertilizer consumption and production of organic farming.

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Important points:

 Total Geographical Area of the country : 329 mha.


 Net sown area of the country: 139.4 mha.
 Grass sown area of the country: 200.2 mha.
 Net Irrigated area in India: 71.55 mha
 Grass irrigated area in India:102.67 mha.
 Cropping intensity of India is: 141.6%.
 The state with highest net irrigated area is: UP (14.33 mha).
 Total micro irrigation area in India 6.8 mha.
 State with highest micro irrigation area is: Karnataka (15.8 lakh ha) > Tamilnadu
(9.3 lakh/ha) > Gujrat (9 lakh/ha).
 State with highest area under Drip irrigation is: Karnataka > Andhra Pradesh >
Gujrat
 Highest area under sprinkler irrigation is: Karnataka.
 State with highest area under micro irrigation: When compared with total net
irrigation area is: Sikkim.
 Bt cotton area in India is: 12 mha (96% of cotton).
 Bt cotton area is highest in Maharastra followed by Gujrat.
 India ranks 5th in global cultivation of GM crops with only Bt cotton in cultivation.
 India is the largest producer of Bt cotton in the world.

Highest Production:

 Highest food grains: UP


 Highest sugarcane: UP
 Highest sugar: Maharashtra.
 Highest pulse: Madhya pradesh.
 The state that ranks first in oilseed production is: Gujrat.

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 Among the oilseed the crop with highest production and largest area under
cultivation is: Soybean > Groundnut.
 Total nutri cereals: Rajasthan.
 Leading Producers of different crops in terms of Area and production:
Crop Leading state in Leading state in Leading state in
area production yield (kg/ha)
Paddy West Bengal West Bengal Punjab
Wheat Uttar Pradesh Uttar pradesh Punjab
Oilseeds MP MP Tamil Nadu
Groundnut Gujrat Gujrat Tamil Nadu
Pulses MP MP Punjab
Rapeseed & Rajasthan Rajasthan Haryana
Mustard
Soybean MP MP Telangana
Sunflower Karnataka Karnataka Telangana
Cotton Maharashtra Gujrat Karnataka
Jute & Mesta West bengal West Bengal -
Sugarcane UP UP -
Potato UP UP -
Silk, Coffee, Karnataka Karnataka -
Miaze
Tobacco Gujarat Gujrat -
Rubber, Pepper, Kerala Kerala -
Cashewnut

 India’s position in the Agriculture:


Ist rank: spices, Ginger, Banana, Mango, Pulses, Cotton seeds, Milks, millets,
Cashewnut, Pomegranate, Jute, Coconut, Livestock, Acid lime.
Ind ranks: Potato, Onion, Tea, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Sugarcane, Rice, Wheat,
Food grains, Groundnut, Cotton, Fruits, Vegetables.
IIIrd Rank: Tomato, fertilizer
 Highest gross sown area: UP > MP > MH
 Highest net sown area: MH and UP

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 Barren and uncultivated land highest in: Rajasthan
 Post harvest losses in cereals and pulses: 4 to 6%
 Percapita Availability of food grains 2021-22:
Food grain PCA (g/day)
Pulses 45
Rice 197
Wheat 183.4
Other cereals 82.4
Total cereals 462.8
Fruits 201.5
Vegetables 400
Milk 427
Egg 91 eggs/annum
Fish 10.54kg/annum
Meat 6.5 kg/annum
Total Food grains 5.7.8

Fertilizer Scenario:

 Worlds first Nano Urea liquid developed by: IFFCO on June 2021.
 Fertilizer subsidy scheme to be named as: PM Bhartiya Jan Urvarak Pariyojana (
8 June 2022)
 One nation one fertilizer scheme named as: PM Bhartiya Jan Urvarak Pariyojana.
 All Urea to be sold under brand name of BHARAT UREA’ and All DAP sold
under brand name of ‘BHARAT DAP’.
 Total consumption of fertilizer in India in 2021-21 is: 29.04 MMT.
N:18.80 MMT
P2O5 : 7.54 MMT
K2O : 2.70 MMT
 NPK use ratio in India in 2020-21 : 6.7 : 2.4 : 1
 Per ha consumption of fertilizer in India: 144.9 kg/ha.

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 Per ha consumption of fertilizer highest in: Bihar (245.24 kg/ha) > Puducherry
 Lowest: Kerala > J & K

Organic farming scenario:

 Total area under the organic certification in India was: 5.9 mha. (3.6 mha
cultivable area and another 2.3 mha. For wild harvest collection.
 Total certified organic production in India: 3.5 MMT.
 The state with largest area under organic certification is MP > RJ > MH.
 MP. Has 0.76 MHA of area under organic cultivation i.e., Over 27% of India’s
total under Organic cultivation.
 India’s first organic state – Sikkim, second- Uttarakhand.
 The country with largest area under organic farming – Australia (35.7 mha) >
Argentina (4.5 mha)
 The country with largest number of organic produce in the world : India (More
than 30% of worlds organic producers are in India.
 India’s rank in terms of organically cultivated area is 4th.
 World’s first wholly organic country is: Bhutan
 Largest produced organic commodities during the year 2020-21 was: Oilseeds >
Fibre > Sugar
 South India’s first Organic farming university may set up in: Shivamogga,
Karnataka.
 National Organic farming Research Institute in Sikkim
 India’s first Organic farming University going to be set up in Vadodara, Gujarat.
 National Centre for organic farming: Ghaziabad, UP
 Indian Institute of farming system Research : Modi Puram, UP

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