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Worldwide employment In agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2021. India has one of the highest number of people employed in these sectors. As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as ...
India is very dependent on its monsoon cycle for large crop yields. India's agriculture has an extensive background which goes back to at least 9 thousand years. In India, in the alluvial plains of the Indus River in Pakistan, the old cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa experienced an apparent establishment of an organized farming urban culture.
Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 18.4% of the GDP, [17] the sector employed 51.2 crore persons or 45.5% of the workforce in India are employed in agriculture. [204] [205] India is major agriculture producing country and has the most arable land in the world followed by the United States. [206]
This article includes the table with land use statistics by country.Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops.
A graph showing exports by India of Basmati and Non-Basmati Rice from 2021 to 2023. [11] [12] The Indian states with the highest areas of Basmati rice under production are Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Western Uttar Pradesh. [9] Basmati rice is major ingredient in Biriyani, Ghee Rice in India.
The oldest evidence for Indian agriculture is in north-west India at the site of Mehrgarh, dated ca. 7000 BCE, with traces of the cultivation of plants and domestication of crops and animals. [2] Indian subcontinent agriculture was the largest producer of wheat and grain.
Composition of India's total production of foodgrains and commercial crops, in 2003–04, by weight. India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 18.6% of the GDP in 2005, employed 60% of the total workforce [13] and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the largest economic sector and plays a ...
These are lists of Indian states and union territories by their nominal gross state domestic product (GSDP). GSDP is the sum of all value added by industries within each state or union territory and serves as a counterpart to the national gross domestic product (GDP). [1]