Pattern of Expenditure in Agricultural sector in 5 year plans

The following table shows the outlay on agriculture and allied sectors (horticulture, animal husbandry and fisheries).

The above table makes it clear that the percentage of plan expenditure on Agriculture and allied sectors has been between 18-24 % except first five year plan when the expenditure was over 30%.

In 1951-52 India's total food grain production was 51 million tonnes. In 2007-08 total food grain production was 230.8 million tons.

• Since independence India's food grain production has increased by 4.5 times.
• National target for food grains production was fixed at 239.10 million tonnes for the year 2009-10.

However, as per the fourth advance estimates of crop productions released in July 2010, total food grain production in 2009-10 is likely to be 218.2 million ton. The following table summarizes the data.

The following table compares the production of food grains, Oil seeds, Sugarcane, Jute & Potato in 1951-52 and 2008-09.

• Total food grains production in India has increased by 4.5 times since first five year plan
• Among wheat and rice, production of wheat has increased to 13 folds. This is because of green revolution which was mainly confined to wheat.
• The increase in production is also due to increase in the irrgable land so actual increase in real terms has been less than the above data.