The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released the Publication- ‘Statistical Report on Value of Output from Agriculture and Allied Sectors 2024’.
Key highlights
- The share of the crop sector in the GVO has decreased from 62.4 per cent to 54.3 per cent between 2011-12 and 2022-23.
- The share of livestock has risen from 25.6 per cent to 30.9 per cent, while fishing and aquaculture has increased from 4.2 per cent to 6.9 per cent.
- The shares of Crop, Livestock, Forestry and Fishing sub-sectors in value of output of Agriculture and allied sector were 54.3%, 30.9%, 7.9% and 6.9% respectively in 2022-23.
- The output of ‘livestock’ sub-sector increased steadily from ₹487.8 thousand crore in 2011-12 to ₹878.5 thousand crore in 2022-23.
- Rajasthan (12.5%) and Uttar Pradesh (12.3%) together accounted for about a quarter of output of livestock sub-sector at constant prices in 2022-23.
- The output of fishing and aquaculture sub-sector increased steadily from about ₹80 thousand crore in 2011-12 to about ₹195 thousand crore in 2022-23. The share of fishing and aquaculture in value of output of Agriculture and allied sector rose to 6.9 percent in FY23 compared with 4.2 percent in FY12.
- Andhra Pradesh remained the largest producer of fishing and aquaculture during the period 2015-16 to 2022-23.
- West Bengal still remained the state with largest fruit and vegetable output share.
