Potato and Onion Wholesale Price Index from January to May 2017
Wholesale price index comprises as far as possible all transactions at first point of bulk sale in the domestic market and released by Office of the Economic Advisor, M/o Commerce and Industries. The current series consists of 102 Primary Articles, 19 Fuel and Power items, and 555 Manufactured Products covering all important items transacted in […]
Wholesale price index comprises as far as possible all transactions at first point of bulk sale in the domestic market and released by Office of the Economic Advisor, M/o Commerce and Industries. The current series consists of 102 Primary Articles, 19 Fuel and Power items, and 555 Manufactured Products covering all important items transacted in […]
Government has introduced yield based Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and weather index based Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) from Kharif 2016 to provide financial support to farmers suffering crop loss/damage due to natural calamities/adverse weather conditions, to stabilize the income of farmers etc. In total there were 366.637 lakh farmers insured […]
Sector wise FDI inflows in Agriculture of India from 2013-14 to 2016-17
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up to 100 percent is permitted under automatic route in specified activities of the agriculture and allied sectors. Further, 100 percent FDI is also allowed under automatic route in the plantation sector namely tea, coffee, rubber, cardamom, palm oil tree and olive oil tree. Most of the people of our country, […]
State/UT-wise Production of Organic Fertilizer in Carrier based in India from 2012-13 to 2015-16
During 2015-16, Production of Organic Fertilizer was 88029.30415 in Carrier based (MT) in India. We had seen a growth of 9.09% during 2015-16 from 80696.45595 in Carrier based (MT) of previous year 2014-15. There are 5 Zones in India; these are namely South Zone, West Zone, North Zone, East Zone and North East Zone. During […]
Total FDI inflows in agriculture sector from 2013-14 to 2016-17
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made by an organization/entity in one country in an industrial/business activity in another country. FDI can take place in the form of establishing new business operations from scratch or acquiring existing business assets in the other country. FDI includes mergers and acquisitions, building new facilities, expansion of existing […]
Rice and Wheat Wholesale Price Index from April 2016 to March 2017
Wholesale price index comprises as far as possible all transactions at first point of bulk sale in the domestic market and released by Office of the Economic Advisor, M/o Commerce and Industries. The current series consists of 102 Primary Articles, 19 Fuel and Power items, and 555 Manufactured Products covering all important items transacted in […]
The groundnut production in India was 7180.5 thousand tonnes in 2015-16. It decreased by -221.2 thousand tonnes as compared to the groundnut production of 7401.7 thousand tonnes in the year 2014-15. Thus, the annual decrease recorded in the year 2015-16 was -2.99%. There were 9 States having groundnut production of more than 100 thousand tonnes […]
The average production of rice per year in India was 103728 thousand tonnes during the period from 2010-11 to 2014-15. There were 9 states having average production of rice per year of more than 5000 thousand tonnes during the period from 2010-11 to 2014-15 viz. West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, […]
