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.]

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Sources: see FAOSTAT.

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