Recent contribution of Agriculture to Indian Economy

  • In 2019-20 total production of horticultural products in India was about 310 million tonnes.
  • In 2019-20, India produced about 24 million tonnes of onion and exported about 2 million tonnes from it.
  • The potato production in 2019-20 was about 51 million tonnes and tomato production stood at about 19 million tonnes.
  • As per estimates, total fresh vegetables production was about 97 million tonnes and about 16 lakh tonnes of it was exported.
  • Grape’s production in 2019-20 was about 1.9 lakh million tonnes, mangoes stood at about 49 thousand million tonnes (besides processed mango pulp adding another 85 thousand tonnes).
  • As of 2019, India’s livestock population rose to around 530 million including cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep, pigs and poultry.
  • India is world’s largest milk producer and exports milk to countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, the UAE, and Afghanistan etc.
  • In 2019-20 about 190 million tonnes of milk was produced. In 2019-20, poultry meat in India accounted for about 4 million tonnes and buffalo meat for about 1.5 million metric tonnes.
  • India’s fish production in 2019-20 was approximately 13 thousand tonnes.
  • In terms of export, India exported about 11 lakh million tonnes of buffalo meat, 14 thousand million tonnes of sheep/goat meat and 3.5 lakh million tonnes of poultry products in 2019-20.