India To Have Enough Grains This Year
Total food grain production is estimated at 3288.52 LMT, higher by 211.00 LMT from average foodgrain production of last 5 years
As new Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan plans in detail with senior officials of the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department regarding the 100-day agricultural action plan, as per “Sankalp” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there comes the good news that this year’s total production of the food grain will be higher than the average of the last five years.
The Union Minister, while understanding all the aspects of the departmental action plan for the first 100 days in the third term of the Modi government, has given directions to take strong steps to strengthen the country’s agriculture sector and to reduce the pain and suffering of farmers.
According to him, the availability of quality fertilizers, seeds and other inputs to our farmer brothers and sisters should be ensured on priority basis.
The Minister has emphasized that agricultural production and productivity should increase in the country, and the Ministry should implement a concrete action plan so that India can export quality agricultural products to other countries of the world as per their needs besides fulfilling the domestic needs.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has released Third Advance Estimates of Major Agricultural Crops for the year 2023-24. From the last agricultural year, the summer season has been segregated from Rabi season and incorporated in the Third Advance Estimates. Hence, this Advance Estimates of area, production and yield includes Kharif, Rabi & Summer season.
This estimate has been primarily prepared on the basis of information received from State Agricultural Statistics Authorities (SASAs). The data received has been validated and triangulated with information received from Remote Sensing, Weekly Crop Weather Watch Group and other agencies. Further the climatic conditions, previous trends, price movements, mandi arrivals etc. are also considered while preparing the estimates.
The details of production of various crops are given as under:
Total Foodgrains – 3288.52 LMT
Rice – 1367.00 LMT
Wheat – 1129.25 LMT
Maize – 356.73 LMT
Shree Anna – 174.08 LMT
Tur – 33.85 LMT
Gram – 115.76 LMT
Total Oilseeds – 395.93 LMT
Soybean – 130.54 LMT
Rapeseed & Mustard – 131.61 LMT
Sugarcane – 4425.22 LMT
Cotton – 325.22 Lakh Bales (170 Kgs. each)
Jute – 92.59 Lakh Bales (180 Kgs. each)
Total food grain production is estimated at 3288.52 LMT, which is slightly lower than food grain production of 2022-23 while higher by 211.00 LMT from average food grain production of the last 5 years (2018-19 to 2022-23) of 3077.52 LMT.
Total Rice production is estimated at 1367.00 LMT as compared to 1357.55 LMT in 2022-23, showing an increase of 9.45 LMT. Production of Wheat is estimated at 1129.25 LMT which is higher by 23.71 LMT from previous year’s wheat production.
Production of Shree Anna is estimated at 174.08 LMT showing a marginal increase of 0.87 LMT from 2022-23 production. Further, Production of Nutri/Coarse Cereals is estimated at 547.34 LMT which is higher by 46.24 LMT from average Nutri/ Coarse Cereals production.
Production of Tur is estimated at 33.85 LMT which is marginally higher by 0.73 LMT from last year’s production of 33.12 LMT. Production of Lentil is estimated at 17.54 LMT which is higher by 1.95 LMT than the previous year’s production of 15.59 LMT.
The production of Soybean is estimated at 130.54 LMT and production of Rapeseed & Mustard is estimated at 131.61 LMT which is higher by 5.18 LMT to last year’s production. The production of Cotton is estimated at 325.22 Lakh Bales (of 170 Kg each) and production of Sugarcane is estimated at 4425.22 LMT.
While preparing the Kharif crop production estimates the Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) based yield has been considered. Further, the process of recording CCEs has been re-engineered by the implementation of Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) which was rolled out in 16 states during the Rabi season. The yield results received under DGCES have been predominantly used to arrive at rabi crop production. Further, summer crop production is based on the average of last 3 years yield.
The details of Third Advance Estimate 2023-24 along with previous estimates are available on upag.gov.in
