Normal Estimates
of
Area, Production and Yield
of
Selected Principal Crops
June 2017
Agricultural Statistics Division
Directorate of Economics & Statistics
Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
New Delhi
NOTE
Estimates of Area, Production and Yield in respect of agricultural commodities vary from year to year depending upon, inter-alia, weather conditions, including temporal and spatial spread of rainfall, farmers’
perception of demand and supply of various agricultural products, emerging international scenario and policies of Union and State Governments. The impact of rainfall on agricultural production is quite significant as about 52% of the net area sown is dependent on rains for water. In the circumstances, the performance of the crop husbandry sector in one year alone is not indicative of the normal performance of the sector. In order to facilitate fair assessment of the general or normal performance of the crop husbandry sector, usually an average of five years’ estimates is taken.
The current set of normal estimates of area, production and yield have been worked out as the average of the estimates for 2011-12 to 2015-16.
States with comparatively insignificant estimates of area and production have been clubbed under ‘Others’ category. Next revision in the normal estimates would be done after release of final estimates for 2016-17.
In some cases, the total indicated may not be exactly equal to the sum of individual figures because of rounding off.
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S.No. Crop/ Group of Crops Page No.
I. All-India Summary
1. Foodgrains 1
2. Oilseeds and Major Commercial Crops 2 II. Foodgrains
3. Rice 3-4
4. Wheat 5
5. Jowar 6
6. Bajra 7
7. Maize 8-9
8. Ragi 10
9. Small Millets 11
10. Barley 12
11. Kharif Coarse Cereals 13
12. Rabi Coarse Cereals 14
13. Total Coarse Cereals 15
14. Kharif Cereals 16
15. Rabi Cereals 17
16. Total Cereals 18
17. Tur 19
18. Gram 20
19. Kharif Pulses other than Tur 21-24
20. Rabi Pulses other than Gram 25-28
21. Kharif Pulses 29
22. Rabi Pulses 30
23. Total Pulses 31
24. Kharif Foodgrains 32
25. Rabi Foodgrains 33
26. Total Foodgrains 34
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S.No. Crop/ Group of Crops Page No.
III Oilseeds
27. Groundnut 35-36
28. Castorseed 37
29. Nigerseed 38
30. Sesamum 39
31. Rapeseed & Mustard 40
32. Linseed 41
33. Safflower 42
34. Sunflower 43
35. Soyabean 44
36. Kharif Oilseeds 45
37. Rabi Oilseeds 46
38. Total Oilseeds 47
IV Major Commercial Crops
39. Sugarcane 48
40. Cotton 49
41. Jute 50
42. Mesta 51
43. Jute & Mesta 52
