The impressive growth of consumption of fertilizer in India in the post-green revolution period ensured increase in foodgrain production from 74.0 million tonnes (MT) in 1966-67 to 209.8 MT during 1999-2000.
Given the importance of the agriculture sector in the Indian economy in terms of its contribution to the GDP (18.5%), employment (58%) and the fact that it constitutes the backbone of the rural livelihood security system, the Union Government supplements and complements the efforts being made by the State Governments to promote agricultural production and productivity through technical and financi
A presentation on need for improvement of agricultural statistics by Vijay Kumar, Adviser, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture.
