Agriculture
The main productions of India are: rice, wheat, dried vegetables, oleaginous plants, sugar cane, cotton and hessian.
The Indian rural population represents 70% ot the total population and the country is self-sufficient from the food point of view. India is the first producer of tea, the second of sugar cane, rice and sorghum, the third of wheat and other grains. Indian production depends essentially on climatic conditions. Indeed, a good monsoon can bring a very good agricultural productivity.
Today, the agriculture which is in decline because of the progress of the industrialization represents a third of the Indian GDP. |
Farmland surface area:
| The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. They represent 169,500,000 hectares in India. |
Number of farms:
Crops
Crop |
Yield (in Metric Tons) |
Surface (in hectares) |
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Rice Paddy
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134,150,000
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44,600,000
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30,078
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Livestock
Number of tractors:
Irrigated land (surface area):
Fishing
Yield in metric tons
Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods |
Saltwater fish |
464,700 Tm.
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2,477,747 Tm.
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Aquacultural yield in metric tons:
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February 2004
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