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The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has released Third Advance Estimates of Major Agricultural Crops for the year 2023-24. From the last agricultural year, the summer season has been segregated from Rabi season and incorporated in the Third Advance Estimates. Hence, this Advance Estimates of area, production and yield includes Kharif, Rabi & Summer season.
2023-24 ESTIMATES:
This estimate has been primarily prepared on the basis of information received from State Agricultural Statistics Authorities (SASAs).
The data received has been validated and triangulated with information received from Remote Sensing, Weekly Crop Weather Watch Group and other agencies.
Further the climatic conditions, previous trends, price movements, mandi arrivals etc. are also considered while preparing the estimates.
The details of production of various crops are given as under:
Total Foodgrains– 3288.52 LMT
Cotton – 325.22 Lakh Bales (170 Kgs. each)
Rice -1367.00 LMT
Wheat – 1129.25 LMT
Maize – 356.73 LMT
Shree Anna– 174.08 LMT
Tur – 33.85 LMT
Gram – 115.76 LMT
Total Oilseeds– 395.93 LMT
Soybean – 130.54 LMT
Rapeseed & Mustard – 131.61 LMT
Sugarcane – 4425.22 LMT
Jute – 92.59 Lakh Bales (180 Kgs. each)
Total foodgrain production is estimated at 3288.52 LMT, which is slightly lower than foodgrain production of 2022-23 while higher by 211.00 LMT from average foodgrain production of last 5 years (2018-19 to 2022-23) of 3077.52 LMT.
While preparing the Kharif crop production estimates the Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) based yield has been considered.
Further, the process of recording CCEs have been re-engineered by the implementation of Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) which was rolled out in 16 states during the Rabi season.
The yield results received under DGCES has been predominantly used to arrive at rabi crop production. Further, summer crop production is based on the average of last 3 years yield.