Lok Sabha Question No. 1555 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-26
Subject: Crop Yield
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Arvind Kumar Sharma

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1555

TO BE ANSWERED ON 26 th  JULY, 2022

## CROP YIELDS

## 1555.  DR. ARVIND KUMAR SHARMA

Will the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare क ृ षि एवं षकसान कल्याण मंत्री

- (a)  whether it is true that yield, across many crops, in east Asian countries, especially of China, is far higher than that of India despite the fact that their average land holdings
- (b) the details of the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to increase crop

be pleased to state; are lower than that of India; yield; and

- (c)  the details of the outcome achieved during the last five years?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्  याण मंत्री

(SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a):   The yield of a crop depends on various factors such as weather extremities, rainfall, soil  type,  agro-climatic  condition,  irrigation  facilities,  types  of  crops  cultivated,  use  of fertilizers and pesticides, length of growing seasons, technology used etc. The yield level of China and some other East Asian countries in certain crop categories are higher than that  in  India,  while  in  some  other  crop  categories,  the  yield  level  of  India  is  higher  than China and some other East Asian Countries. In India multiple crops are grown by farmers in a year.

(b)  &  (c):    National  Food  Security  Mission  (NFSM),  a  centrally  sponsored  scheme, launched  in  2007-08,  is  being  implemented  with  the  objective  of  increasing  foodgrains production through area expansion and productivity enhancement in the identified districts of the country. Under NFSM, assistance is given through state governments to farmers for interventions like cluster demonstrations on improved package of practices, demonstrations  on  cropping  system,  distribution  of  seeds  of  High  Yielding  Varieties (HYVs)/hybrids, improved  farm  machineries/resource  conservation machineries/tools, efficient  water  application  tools,  plant  protection  measures,  nutrient  management/soil ameliorants,  processing  &  post-harvest  equipments,  cropping system based trainings to farmers etc.  The mission also provides support to Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) & State Agricultural Universities (SAUs)/ KrishiVigyanKendras (KVKs) for technology back stopping and transfer of technology to the farmers under supervision of subject  matter  specialists/scientists.  State-wise  details  of  funds  allocated,  released  and expenditure  under  NFSM  during  last  five  years  i.e.  2017-18  to  2021-22  are  given  at Annexure. Further,  ICAR  is  continuously  working  on  development/adoption  of  new technologies,  upgradation  of  existing  technologies  and  provide  quality  seeds  of  newly developed varieties of crops to farmers. During 2017 to 2021, a total of 1521 high yielding field  crop  varieties/hybrids have  been  released  for  various  agro-climatic  region  of  the country  comprising  of 691  of  Cereals;  247  of  Pulses; 222  of  Oilseeds; 52  of  Sugarcane 202  of  Fibre  crops;  91  Forage  Crops  and  16  of  other  crops.  Resultantly,  the  yield  of foodgrains  in  the  country  has  increased  from  2042  kg./hectare  during  2015-16  to  2394 kg./hectare in 2020-21.

## Annexure referred to in reply to Part (b) & (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 5496 due for reply on 26.07.20 22

## State-wise funds allocated, released and expenditure under NFSM  during 2017-18 to 2021-22 (As on 20.07.2022)

| Sl. No.   | Name of the State       | YEAR 2017-18   | YEAR 2017-18     | YEAR 2017-18   | YEAR 2018-19   | YEAR 2018-19   | YEAR 2018-19   | YEAR 2019-20   | YEAR 2019-20   | YEAR 2019-20   | YEAR 2020-21   | YEAR 2020-21   | YEAR 2020-21   | YEAR 2021-22   | YEAR 2021-22   | YEAR 2021-22   |
|-----------|-------------------------|----------------|------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| Sl. No.   | Name of the State       | Allocati on    | Release d        | Expendit ure   | Allocati on    | Released       | Expenditu re   | Allocati on    | Release d      | Expendit ure   | Allocati on    | Release d      | Expendit ure   | Allocati on    | Release d      | Expenditu re   |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh          | 119.50         | 101.54 100.74    | 74.06          | 62.54          |                | 62.49          | 55.68          | 44.12          | 46.20          | 47.94          | 38.75          | 46.43          | 40.33          | 10.08          | 10.29          |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh       | 13.12          | 6.56 6.56        | 9.60           |                | 7.20           | 0.00           | 17.35          | 5.81           | 13.01          | 8.55           | 8.56           | 4.28           | 6.929          | 1.73           | 4.28           |
| 3         | Assam                   | 152.79         | 130.06           | 96.18          | 162.21         | 105.58         | 99.35          | 227.64         | 115.01         | 169.57         | 164.48         | 156.14         | 65.61          | 102.29         | 15.83          | 83.93          |
| 4         | Bihar                   | 101.67         | 28.69            | 42.61 83.63    |                |                | 38.38          | 86.49          | 42.61          | 38.33          | 54.92          | 14.06          | 30.65          | 45.38          | 6.29           | 16.87          |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh            | 93.26          | 69.86            | 111.82         | 46.63 78.58    |                | 71.19          | 131.99         | 85.32          | 64.09          | 111.83         | 53.40          | 63.30          | 85.38          | 2.54           | 25.82          |
| 6         | Goa                     | 0.58           | 58.26 0.00 0.01  | 0.13           | 0.00           | 0.02           |                | 0.13           | 0.00           | 0.00           | 0.13           | 0.00           | 0.00           | 0.11           | 0.00           | 0.03           |
| 7         | Gujarat                 | 37.91          | 5.00 18.63       | 26.86          | 17.21          |                | 15.91          | 33.53          | 16.08          | 20.59          | 22.98          | 16.96          | 17.14          | 18.99          | 4.75           | 14.43          |
| 8         | Haryana                 | 15.68 7.96     | 6.47             | 20.47          |                | 11.42          | 6.10           | 23.72          | 3.55           | 6.57           | 19.98          | 3.40           | 5.32           | 19.08          | 3.37           | 2.47           |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh        | 13.21          | 12.23 13.21      | 12.92          | 12.11          |                | 11.57          | 12.17          | 11.44          | 11.94          | 11.23          | 11.20          | 11.23          | 8.14           | 5.81           | 3.75           |
| 10        | UT Jammu & Kashmir      | 20.74          | 9.05             | 8.31           | 12.76          | 6.21           | 5.66           | 13.44          | 7.07           | 6.81           | 10.82          | 3.78           | 5.03           | 7.61           | 1.90           | 0.84           |
| 11        | Jharkhand               | 59.64          | 25.71 21.03      | 58.70          | 44.90          |                | 20.10          | 63.41          | 22.15          | 39.48          | 34.29          | 12.64          | 18.40          | 29.09          | 3.14           | 8.63           |
| 12        | Karnataka               | 146.07         | 96.55 112.91     | 138.94         | 131.91         |                | 98.70          | 160.64         | 120.89         | 113.86         | 138.76         | 93.12          | 121.74         |                | 82.34          | 96.86          |
| 13        | Kerala                  | 1.22           | 0.47             | 1.08           |                | 0.00           | 0.00           | 1.04           | 0.63           | 0.00           | 0.88           | 0.00           | 124.75 0.51    | 0.64           | 0.16           | 0.52           |
| 14        | UT of Ladakh            |                | 0.13             |                |                |                |                |                |                |                | 0.39           | 0.20           | 0.00           | 0.00           | 0.00           | 0.00           |
| 15        | Madhya Pradesh          | 377.28         | 103.80           | 105.66         | 309.03         | 104.40         | 166.17         | 403.49         | 187.98         | 130.21         | 309.59         | 14.14          | 158.68         | 282.67         | 169.56         | 119.66         |
| 16        | Maharashtra             | 161.28         | 152.10           | 155.90         |                | 112.56         | 101.73         | 142.04         | 107.94         | 120.49         | 153.36         | 128.56         | 94.64          | 139.33         | 44.68          | 84.24          |
| 17        | Manipur                 | 15.04          | 133.77 4.68      | 13.71          |                | 7.44           | 7.44           | 14.60          | 11.76          | 10.71          | 13.09          | 6.54           | 6.54           | 8.77           | 2.19           | 0.00           |
| 18        | Meghalaya               | 8.38           | 4.68 5.23        | 4.36           | 5.95           | 4.94           | 3.92           | 6.11           | 2.82           | 2.30           | 6.34           | 4.74           | 5.37           | 4.72           | 0.25           | 0.15           |
| 19        | Mizoram                 | 2.31           | 2.30             | 2.37 3.04      |                | 2.28           | 2.29           | 3.19           | 2.39           | 2.40           | 2.89           | 1.44           | 1.44           | 2.42           | 0.61           | 0.00           |
| 20        | Nagaland                | 20.29          | 17.75            | 17.75 18.87    |                | 18.73          | 18.73          | 21.58          | 16.81          | 16.81          | 17.03          | 17.00          | 8.52           | 13.56          | 3.39           | 3.39           |
| 21        | Odisha                  | 79.88          | 54.90            | 55.00          | 84.98          | 84.91          | 84.78          | 88.12          | 75.51          | 75.60          | 72.85          | 72.84          |                | 62.15          | 30.37          | 30.13          |
| 22        | Punjab                  | 14.88          | 5.43             | 7.19           | 16.30          | 0.15           | 0.00           | 16.34          | 0.06           | 0.00           | 3.02           | 0.28           | 72.84 0.00     | 2.59           | 0.00           | 0.00           |
| 23        | Rajasthan               | 190.76         | 85.30            | 156.94         | 188.82         | 116.27         | 95.39          | 245.57         | 138.99         | 103.62         | 230.96         | 140.25         | 121.85         | 199.60         | 89.50          | 85.73          |
| 24        | Sikkim                  | 5.95           | 0.00             | 11.29          |                |                | 9.40           | 8.07           | 5.96           | 5.96           | 5.80           | 5.71           | 1.50           | 4.95           | 1.24           | 1.23           |
| 25        | Tamil Nadu              | 51.28          | 4.46 37.02 40.96 | 58.16          |                | 9.39 55.20     | 52.10          | 56.29          | 48.11          | 53.08          | 38.17          | 34.10          | 35.71          | 38.75          | 26.50          | 25.76          |
| 26        | Telangana               | 51.11          | 19.34 21.82      | 34.27          |                | 9.61           | 16.78          | 32.65          | 15.05          | 10.91          | 28.04          | 7.10           | 9.93           | 21.94          | 0.00           | 0.00           |
| 27        | Tripura                 | 19.03          | 17.15 15.02      | 22.46          |                | 17.84          | 18.00          | 14.90          | 4.25           | 4.57           | 6.02           |                | 9.47           | 7.19           | 3.20           | 3.20           |
| 28        | Uttar Pradesh           |                | 77.83            | 192.37         |                |                | 101.28         | 161.07         | 79.46          | 93.97          | 10.43 141.40   | 100.13         | 91.53          | 119.85         | 52.73          | 67.16          |
|           |                         | 173.99         | 83.10 3.83       | 8.57           |                | 131.24         | 12.55          | 18.38          |                |                |                |                | 10.15          | 12.77          | 4.98           | 4.81           |
| 29 30     | Uttarakhand West Bengal | 17.70 116.43   | 107.86 97.90     |                | 20.49 109.22   | 17.83 92.51    | 94.59          | 113.22         | 7.82 89.93     | 9.95 109.54    | 15.47 70.14    | 10.36 63.87    | 68.49          | 64.38          | 42.83          | 28.06          |
|           | Total                   | 2080.98        | 1193.13          | 1239.67        | 1958.03        | 1309.59        | 1214.70        | 2172.83        | 1269.49        | 1280.57        | 1745.77        | 1025.27        | 1089.31        | 1471.34        | 609.95         | 722.23         |

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## Annexure

(Rs. In Crore)