, 08 August 2016 : Indian ministry of agriculture’s Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare has released the 4th advance estimates of production of major crops for 2015-16.
The department said despite setback due to deficient rainfall and due to shortage of water in reservoirs advance estimates for 2015-16 total foodgrains production in the country has been higher than that in the last year.
Total foodgrains production during 2015-16 has been estimated at 252.22 million tonnes, has been higher by 0.20 million tonnes over the production of 252.02 million tonnes during 2014-15.
Total production of rice during 2015-16 is estimated at 104.32 million tonnes, which is lower by 1.16 million tonnes than its production of 105.48 million tonnes during 2014-15. Production of wheat estimated at 93.50 million tonnes is higher by 6.97 million tonnes than the production of 86.53 million tonnes of wheat during 2014-15.
Total production of coarse cereals is estimated at 37.94 million tonnes which is lower by 4.92 million tonnes as compared to their production of 42.86 million tonnes during 2014-15. Total pulses production of 16.47 million tonnes during 2015-16 is marginally lower than the previous year’s production of 17.15 million tonnes. With a decline of 2.207 million tonnes over the previous year’s production’s total oilseeds production in the country during 2015-16 is estimated at 25.304 million tonnes.
Production of sugarcane estimated at 352.16 million tones, is lower by 10.17 million tonnes than its production during 2014-15. Production of Cotton estimated at 30.147 million bales (of 170 kg each) is also lower by 4.658 million bales than its production of 34.805 million bales during 2014-15.
The estimated production of major crops during 2015-16 is as under:
Foodgrains – 252.22 million tonnesØ
Rice – 104.32 million tonnes·
Wheat – 93.50 million tonnes·
Coarse Cereals – 37.94 million tonnes·
Pulses – 16.47 million tonnesØ
Oilseeds – 25.3 million tonnesØ
Cotton – 30.147 million bales (of 170 kg each)Ø
Sugarcane – 352.163 million tonnesØ
