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The Indian Agriculture sector is the largest sector in the Indian economy
contributing 25% to the GDP of the country as well as accounting for 13 %
of India's exports.
In the initial years in India, agriculture activity was limited to the production
food grains and few cash crops such as cotton, sugarcane and jute, but recent
years has been a remarkable shift in the agriculture scene, including increasing
diversity in a range of products and greater sophistication with the creation of
critical infrastructure like cold storage, refrigerated transportation, packaging,
quality control etc. The Indian agriculture sector is now set for a leap with the
introduction of new technology like IT, Bio technology, advance agriculture practices.
India has made fairly good practices on the Horticulture Map of the world with
a total annual production of the horticulture crops touching over 149 Million
tones. India has bestowed with wide range of climate and physio-geographical
conditions and such as most suitable for various kinds of horticulture crops.
India's potential to become a leading player in the agriculture sector is proved
by the fact that it already has makings of one. |
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India is the largest producer of vegetable, fruits, pulses, cashew nut, coconuts, cotton, sugarcane, tea and assortment of
spices in the world. |
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Second largest producer of rice & wheat & fourth largest in producing grains.More than 600 million farmers are in India (in fact, every fourth farmer in the world is an Indian). |
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Indian farmers can grow variety of vegetables & fruits throughout the year. |
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World's largest milk producing country ( 99 million tons per annum in 06-07),15% of the total milk production in the world. |
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In-milk bovine population in the year 2003 was 8.2 million cross bread cows, 27.6 million Indigenous cows and 33 million buffaloes. |
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Market for veterinary products & feed additives is Rs. 12,000 crores. |
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Dairy plants handle 45 million liters per day. |
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India is one of the top six egg producing and the top five chicken producing countries |
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India is one the third largest producer of fish in the world and second largest producer of Inland fish |
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