Lok Sabha Question No. 57 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-11
Subject: Production of Fruits and Vegetables
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: KULAMANI SAMAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 57

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 11 TH  DECEMBER, 2018

## PRODUCTION OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

## 57. DR. KULAMANI SAMAL:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the production of fruits and vegetables in the country during each year of the last five years, State-wise including Odisha;
- (b) the  programmes/schemes  being  implemented  to  boost  production  and  productivity  of fruits and vegetables;
- (c) the steps taken by the Government for marketing of fruits and vegetables and increasing their remunerative prices; and
- (d) the steps taken by the Government for advanced research in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंालय म राय मंी (SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA)

- (a): The  details  of  the  production  of  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  in  each  year  of  the  last  five years, in the country, State-wise including Odisha, is at Annexure-I and II respectively.
- (b): To  boost  the  production  and  productivity  of  fruits  and  vegetables,  Government  is implementing Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), for holistic growth of the horticulture sector. The scheme  provides support for production of planting material, high yielding  varieties  of    vegetable  seed  production,  vegetable  cultivation,  rejuvenation  of  senile orchards, protected cultivation, and for adoption of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM)/Integrated  Pest  Management  (IPM),  organic  farming,  including  insitu  generation  of organic inputs.

Besides this, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is undertaking Flagship/Challenged  Projects  to  promote  research  in  different  Horticultural  Crops  to  increase production of fruits and vegetables in areas such as crop improvement, crop production, crop protection and Post Harvest Technology.

- (c): The steps include providing assistance for setting up of market infrastructure, mobilizing farmers into Farmer Producer Organization and linking them to markets, providing assistance for  development  of  post  harvest  management  and  marketing  infrastructure  such  as  cold storages,  cold  rooms,  packing  and  grading  house,  reefer  vehicles,  primary  processing  units, ripening chambers, etc., besides making farmers aware of the nearby processing facilities.

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Government also implements the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) for procurement of horticulture commodities, in order to protect growers of these commodities from making distress sale, at the request of the concerned State Government. The losses are share by the Central and concerned State Governments on 50:50 basis.

Besides,  Government  is  implementing  National  Agriculture  Market  (e-NAM)  scheme wherein online trading of agriculture commodities (including some horticulture commodities) is done for  transparent  price  discovery  for  farmers  for  their  produce  through  competitive  online bidding system.

Also, through a new  model  'The Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion  &  Facilitation)  Act,  2017'  ,  alternate  marketing  channels  such  as  setting  up  of private  markets,  direct  marketing,  farmer-consumer  markets,  special  commodity  markets, declaring warehouses/silos/cold storages or such structures as market sub yards, are provided, to facilitate farmers in marketing their produce at competitive and remunerative prices.

(d): The Government is promoting research through Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) and associated Institutes to undertake basic strategic, applied and adaptive research on horticultural crops in the country. The ICAR is promoting advanced research in areas such as developing  improved  varieties,  conservation  of  genetic  diversity,  protected  cultivation  for nursery production, micronutrient formulation, planting, material, conservation through Custodian  farmers,  transfer  of  taking  to  technology  etc.  Besides,  regular  scientists-farmers interface  meetings  are  arranged  to  address  farmers  problems  and  steps  are  being  taken  to impart more post graduate teaching and research to more number of students.

## Statewise Production of Fruits Crop

Production in '000 MT

| Sl. No.            | STATE/UTs        | 2013-14   |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 | 2017-18 (Provisional)   |
|--------------------|------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------|
| 1 ANDHRA           | PRADESH 10510.56 | 9121.62   |  10088.8  |  13612.9  |  15002.8  |                         |
| 2 ARUNACHAL        | PRADESH 321.26   |           |    331.4  |    306.27 |    124.38 | 125.66                  |
| 3 ASSAM            |                  | 2007.80   |   2030.14 |   2077.77 |   2024.84 | 2433.95                 |
| 4                  | BIHAR            | 4013.58   |   3990    |   4230.63 |   4234.62 | 4273.85                 |
| 5 CHHATTISGARH     | 1930.18          |           |   2071.14 |   2294.73 |   2480.4  | 2659.60                 |
| 6 GUJARAT          |                  | 8001.96   |   8300.6  |   8477.17 |   8937.42 | 9026.79                 |
| 7 HARYANA          | 554.90           |           |    703.68 |    737.82 |    770.97 | 704.32                  |
| 8 HIMACHAL PRADESH | 866.34           |           |    751.94 |    928.83 |    611.88 | 596.29                  |
| 9 JAMMU & KASHMIR  | 2073.94          |           |   1779.44 |   2115.72 |   2241.06 | 2343.43                 |
| 10 JHARKHAND       | 890.04           |           |    898.08 |    961.19 |   1047.97 | 1075.97                 |
| 11 KARNATAKA       | 6652.42          |           |   6799.89 |   7023.69 |   7218.38 | 7029.69                 |
| 12                 | KERALA           | 2889.50   |   2554.12 |   2532.94 |   2509.13 | 2261.06                 |
| 13 MADHYA          | PRADESH          | 5696.00   |   6119    |   5783.06 |   6935.6  | 7031.37                 |
| 14 MAHARASHTRA     | 13457.92         |           |  11089.5  |   9749.8  |  10630.1  | 11739.42                |
| 15 MANIPUR         | 515.69           |           |    521.57 |    467.76 |    478.77 | 470.88                  |
| 16                 | MEGHALAYA        | 348.00    |    377.25 |    395.4  |    426.86 | 369.23                  |
| 17                 | MIZORAM          | 343.90    |    350.91 |    330.28 |    339.05 | 340.51                  |
| 18 NAGALAND        |                  | 411.00    |    411    |    374.13 |    388.49 | 380.52                  |
| 19                 | ODISHA           | 2148.27   |   2156.49 |   2386.94 |   2432.27 | 2429.30                 |
| 20 PUNJAB          |                  | 1541.24   |   1644.64 |   1790.94 |   1818.19 | 1908.85                 |
| 21 RAJASTHAN       |                  | 581.78    |    735.6  |    681.57 |    995.6  | 1036.72                 |
| 22 SIKKIM          |                  | 24.05     |      0.03 |     23.48 |     25.56 | 26.08                   |
| 23 TAMILNADU       |                  | 7369.86   |   5963.93 |   6635.1  |   6181.77 | 6158.37                 |
| 24                 | TELANGANA        | 4440.98   |   5287.7  |   4319.87 |   1200.3  | 1829.40                 |
| 25                 | TRIPURA          | 786.35    |    819.12 |    854.05 |    559.92 | 593.37                  |
| 26 UTTAR PRADESH   |                  | 6887.45   |   7558.99 |  10296.1  |  10302.8  | 10539.78                |
| 27                 | UTTARAKHAND      | 678.49    |    785.97 |    659.1  |    662.85 | 663.23                  |
| 28                 | WEST BENGAL      | 2909.71   |   3313.7  |   3516.71 |   3585.3  | 3849.06                 |
| 29                 | OTHERS           | 123.98    |    134.23 |    143.16 |    140.75 | 155.23                  |
|                    | TOTAL            | 88977.13  |  86601.7  |  90183    |  92918    | 97054.75                |

## Annexure-I

## Annexure-II

## Statewise Production of  Vegetables Crop

Production in '000 MT

| Sl No.             | STATE/UTs       | 2013-14   |   2014-15 | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (Provisional)   |
|--------------------|-----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------|
| 1 ANDHRA           | PRADESH 8149.76 | 4592.58   |   5442.77 | 8026.36   | 7378.60   |                         |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH  | 35.00           | 41.00     |     33.01 | 14.42     | 14.71     | 2                       |
| 3 ASSAM            | 3031.90         | 4469.73   |   3821.71 | 3329.58   |           | 4033.30                 |
| 4 BIHAR            | 15097.77        | 14467.15  |  14400.1  | 14520.97  |           | 13948.04                |
| 5 CHHATTISGARH     | 5465.92         | 5812.32   |   6318.41 | 6728.00   | 6827.35   |                         |
| 6 GUJARAT          | 11571.24        | 11861.23  |  13401.4  | 13161.25  |           | 13292.86                |
| 7 HARYANA          | 5565.90         | 5305.59   |   6129.36 | 6180.43   |           | 6661.91                 |
| 8 HIMACHAL PRADESH | 1635.88         | 1585.37   |   1715.16 | 1783.77   |           | 1806.22                 |
| 9 JAMMU & KASHMIR  | 1395.47         | 1395.47   |   1386.37 | 1410.42   |           | 1424.52                 |
| 10 JHARKHAND       | 4238.13         | 4279.28   |   3373.82 | 3370.00   |           | 3476.35                 |
| 11 KARNATAKA       | 7500.69         | 8828.37   |   7804.57 | 8167.16   | 7423.38   |                         |
| 12 KERALA          | 3572.67         | 1645.06   |   2088.66 | 1921.45   |           | 2102.09                 |
| 13 MADHYA PRADESH  | 13019.31        | 14199.00  |  15568.3  | 17928.50  |           | 17647.33                |
| 14 MAHARASHTRA     | 10161.83        | 8783.01   |   9452.07 | 10520.49  |           | 10026.05                |
| 15 MANIPUR         | 271.04          | 268.01    |    316.51 | 369.85    |           | 333.20                  |
| 16 MEGHALAYA       | 515.34          | 534.00    |    494.88 | 523.42    |           | 520.60                  |
| 17 MIZORAM         | 254.14          | 273.76    |    179.02 | 179.88    |           | 169.81                  |
| 18 NAGALAND        | 492.37          | 492.37    |    494.61 | 564.62    |           | 561.61                  |
| 19 ODISHA          | 9433.66         | 9413.54   |   8755.51 | 8761.61   |           | 8766.08                 |
| 20 PUNJAB          | 3936.19         | 4167.65   |   4301.63 | 4564.91   |           | 4919.71                 |
| 21 RAJASTHAN       | 1114.07         | 1433.23   |   1986.73 | 1795.37   |           | 2109.30                 |
| 22 SIKKIM          | 134.53          | 130.06    |    106.94 | 190.72    |           | 229.10                  |
| 23 TAMILNADU       | 8678.82         | 7521.02   |   6976.15 | 6559.84   |           | 6474.94                 |
| 24 TELANGANA       | 3647.28         | 3005.33   |   3195.44 | 1647.03   |           | 2183.46                 |
| 25 TRIPURA         | 780.52          | 811.09    |    793.24 |           | 817.94    | 827.11                  |
| 26 UTTAR PRADESH   | 18544.96        | 26120.18  |  26251    | 28192.63  |           | 27515.92                |
| 27 UTTARAKHAND     | 1016.83         | 1109.65   |    945.36 | 945.29    |           | 946.38                  |
| 28 WEST BENGAL     | 23044.95        | 26354.61  |  22825.5  |           | 25505.66  | 27565.10                |
| 29 OTHERS          | 590.75          | 578.57    |    505.81 | 490.83    |           | 506.76                  |
| TOTAL              | 162896.91       |           | 169478    | 169063.93 | 178172.40 | 179691.80               |

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