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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 ...
Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...
Of the 160 million hectares of cultivated land in India, about 39 million hectare can be irrigated by groundwater wells and an additional 22 million hectares by irrigation canals. [72] In 2010, only about 35% of agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated. [73] About 2/3rd cultivated land in India is dependent on monsoons. [74]
The total cultivable area in India was reported as 155,369,076 hectares [1] (52.3% of its total land area) [2] as of 2020, and is shrinking due to over-farming, increased livestock grazing, deforestation, urban growth, and severe weather events. [3] [4] India has a total water surface area of 314,070 km 2. [5]
Permanent pastures are 68.4% of all agricultural land (26.3% of global land area), arable land (row crops) is 28.4% of all agricultural land (10.9% of global land area), and permanent crops (e.g. vineyards and orchards) are 3.1% (1.2% of global land area). [8] [9] Total of land used to produce food: 49,116,227 square kilometers or 18,963,881 ...
Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 18.4% of the GDP, [15] the sector employed 51.2 crore persons or 45.5% of the workforce in India are employed in agriculture. [199] [200] India is major agriculture producing country and has the most arable land in the world followed by the United States. [201]
According to 2001/2002 Agriculture census, only 58.13 million hectares of land was actually irrigated in India. [32] The total arable land in India is 160 million hectares (395 million acres). According to the World Bank, only about 35% of total agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated in 2010. [2]
A 2010 report by the Government of India, on labor whose livelihood depends on agricultural land, claims that, per 2009 data collected across all states in India, the all-India annual average daily wage rates in agricultural occupations ranged between ₹ [22] 53 and 117 per day for men working in farms (US$354 to 780 per year), and between ...