Double Y-axis chart of India cereals production yields from 1961 to 2007. Area harvested  grew from 92,239 thousand hectares in 1961 to a peak of 106,613 in 1983, after which it decreased to 99,472 in 2007. Over the period, total area increased at an annual average rate of 0.16%. Production increased three fold from 87  million tonnes in 1961 to 260 in 2007, at an annual change average rate of 2.4%. Yields grew 2.8 times from 947 kilogram/hectare in 1961 to 2,619 in 2007, at an annual average rate of  2.2%.

India has succeeded in keeping cereals total production and yields continuously growing from 1961 through 2007. However, yields at 2,619 kilogram/hectare are still modest compared with those of the world (3,380 kg/Ha), not to mention China (5,315 kg/Ha). India has also experienced difficulties with expanding areas harvested that, although 8% larger in 2007 than in 1961, have been shrinking since the peak of 106,613 thousand hectares in 1983. Modest yields and arable land limitations put a brake on effective production increases.
[Primary Y-axis: production in million metric tonnes, and yield in kilogram/hectare. Secondary Y-axis: area harvested in thousand hectares. Dots represent actual data, for which the corresponding regression lines are provided in the same colour.]

 

India
Cereals - Areas Harvested & Yields

Year

Area Harvested
(thousand hectares - kHa)

Yield
(kilogram/hectare - kg/Ha)

Production
(million tonnes)

196192,23994787
196293,85293087
196393,57196690
196494,30699494
196593,27785480
196692,73086480
196796,06299495
196898,8231,037102
1969100,8731,054106
1970100,3771,135114
197199,6731,136113
197298,0441,108109
1973103,7891,153120
197499,3891,074107
1975101,3671,261128
1976101,4651,199122
1977103,7241,331138
1978104,3401,370143
1979103,4731,222126
1980104,0671,350140
1981105,5081,399148
1982101,0841,346136
1983106,6131,564167
1984105,1761,564164
1985104,0571,592166
1986104,0491,585165
198798,5741,584156
1988103,5431,776184
1989104,0561,916199
1990102,5371,891194
1991100,2431,926193
199299,5002,025201
1993100,0672,085209
1994100,1842,116212
199599,4512,112210
1996100,3002,181219
1997100,1672,229223
1998100,9042,248227
1999102,0922,314236
2000102,4022,294235
2001100,2712,423243
200294,4712,187207
200398,6032,399237
200497,8062,350230
200599,5192,412240
200699,1992,456244
200799,4722,619260
Average change/year0.2%2.2%2.4%

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Sources: see FAOSTAT.

 

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