agricultural cerdit derivative system in india
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I. Introduction
The agricultural sector has always been an important contributor to the India GDP. This is due to
the fact that the country is mainly based on the agricultural sector and employs around 60% of
the total workforce in India. The agricultural sector and its allied sectors contributed around
15.7% to India GDP in 2008-09.
Agriculture Growth Rate in India GDP inspite of its decline in the share of the country's GDP
plays a vital role in all round economic and social development of the country. The Growth Rate
of the Agricultural Sector in India GDP grew after independence for the government of India
placed special emphasis on the sector in its five-year plans.
Since independence Indian agricultural sector has come through many ups and downs, it has seen
the terrible face of droughts and floods The agricultural sector has had low production due to a
number of factors such as illiteracy, insufficient finance, and inadequate marketing of
agricultural products.
Agriculture Growth Rate in India GDP has also decreased due to the fact that the sector has
insufficient irrigation facilities. As a result of this the farmers are dependent on rainfall, which is
however very unpredictable.
Finance in agriculture is as important as development of technologies. Technical inputs can be
purchased and used by farmer only if he has money (funds). But his own money is always
inadequate and he needs outside finance or credit.
Currently the biggest challenge for the entire credit delivery system mechanism of India is the
financial non-inclusion of small and marginal farmers. There are some fundamental problems for
this and the root of these fundament problems are the land holding pattern of the Indian farmers.Majority of farmers are marginal farmers and they cultivate in the land on share basis. So
basically they dont have the land on their name. Due to this fact they hesitate to approach the co
operative societies or banks. They prefer to take loan from the local money lenders. They use to
charge unduly high rates of interest and follow serious practices while giving loans and
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recovering them. As a result, farmers were heavily burdened with debts and many of them
perpetuated debts.
With the passing of Reserve Bank of India Act 1934, District Central Co-op. Banks Act and
Land Development Banks Act, agricultural credit received impetus and there were improvements
in agricultural credit.
Till 14 major commercial banks were nationalized in 1969, co-operative banks were the
main institutional agencies providing finance to agriculture. After nationalization, it was made
mandatory for these banks to provide finance to agriculture as a priority sector. These banks
undertook special programs of branch expansion and created a network of banking services
throughout the country and started financing agriculture on large scale. Thus agriculture credit
acquired multi-agency dimension. Development and adoption of new technologies and
availability of finance go hand in hand. In bringing "Green Revolution", "White Revolution" and
now "Yellow Revolution" finance has played a crucial role.
So finally we can say the fact is that now it has achieved the development in terms of increase in
crop production and productivity, technological developments, and crop diversification. The
reason behind this developments are the improved irrigation system, accurate weather
forecasting techniques with the help of sophisticated technology, effective government policy on
agriculture, dedicated universities and institutions for agricultural research and last but not the
least the ever improving agricultural credit delivery system which comprise of extensive network
of Co-operative societies, Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), Commercial banks, NGOs. etc.
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II.STRUCTURE OF RURAL CREDIT/MULTI AGENCY APPROACHThe credit facilities are available to rural agriculturists through financial and non financial
institutions which are:
Non Institutional
- Professional money lenders
- Agricultural money lenders
- Relatives and friends
- Traders and commission agents
- Land lords and
- Others
Institutional
- Government- Cooperative Banks and
- Commercial banks
The non institutional credit sources are considered as exploitative and high cost system.
However, they are very much accessible and easily negotiable with the lenders. It is observed
that non institutional source of credit is continued to be an important source in rural areas.
Institutional lending or credit or loans refers to loans provided by financial institutions.
Agricultural Credit Policy essentially focuses on strengthening the credit flow at the
ground level through credit planning, adoption of region specific strategies, rationalization of
lending policies and procedures, and bringing down the cost of borrowing. Bank credit is
available to the farmers in short term basis for financing the crop production process and in
medium/long term basis for various purposes like purchase of land, irrigation, farm
mechanization, plantation, poultry, etc.
Agricultural credit is disbursed through a multi agency network consisting of Commercial Banks
(CBs), Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) and Cooperatives. There are approximately 100,000
village-level Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), 368 District Central Cooperative
Banks (DCCBs) with 12,858 branches and 30 State Cooperative Banks (SCBs) with 953
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branches providing primarily short- and medium-term agricultural credit in India. The long-term
cooperative structure consists of 19 State Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development
Banks (SCARDBs), with 2609 operational units as on 31 March 2005 comprising 788 branches
and 772 Primary Agricultural and Rural Development Banks (PA&RDBs) with 1049 branches.
II.1. Co-Operative Societies
Remarkable progress is made as far as Indian cooperatives are concerned after 1950s in various
sectors like credit, banking, production, processing, distribution/marketing, housing,
warehousing, irrigation, transport, textiles and even industries. In fact, dairy and sugar
cooperatives have made India a major nation in the world with regard to milk and sugar
production. Today, India can claim to have the largest network of cooperatives in the world
numbering more than half a million, with a membership of more than 200 million. The following
are the unique features of Indian cooperative movement:
Agricultural Cooperatives are given priorities by the government and the policy makers
hence are more developed than others. They have tasted success in some areas like diary,
urban banking, etc up to certain extent but larger areas have remained untouched.
Government has a say in the Indian cooperative movement. Its contribution is 7.5 percent
of the total share capital of the primary agricultural cooperatives.
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF COOPERATIVECREDIT SOCIETIES:
The rural credit cooperatives have two parts and it is a three-tier structure \,one is short-term
credit cooperatives and another is long-term credit cooperatives. For the short-term credit
cooperatives around 92,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) directly dealing with
the individual borrower at the bottom level. At the district level, District Central Cooperative
Banks (DCCB) acts as a link between primary societies and State Cooperative Apex Banks
(SCB). The federal cooperatives like DCCB and SCB, whose objective is to serve the member
cooperatives. The long-term cooperative credit structure has two tiers structure i.e. Primary
Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks (PCARDB) at the primary level and
State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank at the state level.
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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
Primary Agricultural
Credit Societies(92,000)
Primary operative
Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Banks
District Central Co-
Operative Banks
(367)
State Co-operative
Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Banks
State Co-operative
Banks (29)
Long-term
StructureShort-term
Structure
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II.2. Regional Rural Bank
On 26th
September 1975, Regional Rural Banks have been opened by Government of India
which was later replaced by the Regional Rural Bank Act 1976. 183 Regional Rural Banks with
a network of 10,245 branches have been opened in India up to June 1985. The total number of
Regional Rural banks functioning in the country as at the end of June 1999 was 196 covering
451 districts spread over 23 states with the network of 14,467 branches.
RRBs are jointly owned by Government of India, the concerned State Government and Sponsor
Banks (27 scheduled commercial banks and one State Cooperative Bank); the issued capital of a
RRB is shared by the owners in the proportion of 50%, 15% and 35% respectively.
Regional Rural Banks were established with the following objectives in mind:
i.) Reaching the banking service at every corner of the state, district and village i.e. to
unbanked areas
ii.) Credit availability to every weaker section of the society who has not been access to
loan or depending on the private money lenders.
iii.) Mobilizes rural savings and channelize them for supporting productive activities in
rural areas.
iv.) To create a supplementary channel for the flow the money to the rural areas through
refinance
v.) Generating employment opportunities in rural areas and providing credit with very
cheaper rate of interest.
II.2.1 District Coverage
RRBs covered 525 out of 605 districts as on 31 March 2006. After amalgamation, RRBs have
become quite large covering most parts of the State like, Assam Gramin Vikas Bank, an
amalgamated RRB, covers 25 districts, the highest in the country, while five other amalgamated
RRBs cover 10 or more districts each. However, 40 RRBs covered two districts and 16 RRBs
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covered a single district each in 2005-06. Increased coverage of districts by RRBs makes them
an important segment of the Rural Financial Institutions (RFI) for financial inclusion.
II.2.2. Branch Network
The number of branches of RRBs increased to 14,494 as on 31 March 2006 from 13,920
branches as on 31 March 1989. The network of the 45 amalgamated RRBs (as on April 2007)
was quite large and diverse varying from 85 to 680 branches. The Uttar Bihar KGB, an
amalgamated RRB, has 680 branches, followed by Baroda Eastern UPGB with 539 branches.
The branch network of stand-alone RRBs varied between 8 and 242 as on 31 March 2006.
II.3.C
ommercial Bank
In 1954 All-India Rural Credit Survey (AIRCS) had given an impetus to build up an effective
credit in agriculture. It was found that the credit given by commercial banks was less than 1% in
1951-52.For which agricultural credit fell short of the right quantity, was not of the right type,
and did not fit the right purpose and often failed to go to the right people. So to overcome those
loopholes, Imperial Bank of India had been nationalized and named as State Bank of India (SBI).
The agricultural advances of the commercial banking system aggregated Rs. 16,687 crore
and constituted 14% of total advances in March 1991. The rural and semi-urban branches of
commercial banks covered 17.6 crore deposit accounts while the number of loan accounts
serviced aggregated 3.7 crore.
Since 1991-92, it has been seen a vigorous growth in agricultural credit. The statistics said that in
2003-04, the total flow of credit both by commercial banks and RRBs increased to Rs. 60,022
crore, i.e a compound annual growth rate of 22.2%.At this time credit flow from cooperative
sector was much slower in this period. The compounded annual growth rate of credit for
agriculture from cooperative institutions was only 13.7%.
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Bank credit disbursed during 1970-71 as a percentage to the Agriculture GDP was
0.57,the same increased to 12.13 during 2000-01 and to an all-time high of 49.5% points during
2005-06.However 2.04 times increment in the credit disbursement in Indian Agriculture could
lead to an increase in 1.11 times of the Agri-GDP during 1970-71 and 1975-76,the growth in
credit disbursement and Agri-GDP between the years 2000-01 and 2005-06 shows that same
were 4.73 times and only 1.16 times respectively.
Special Agricultural Credit Plan (SACP) was introduced by RBI for Public Sector
Commercial Banks in 1994-95. Credit growth for agriculture and allied sectors under this caption
reflected a CAGR of 36.45% during 2001-02 to 2005-06.SACP has since been extended to
Private Sector Commercial Banks from 2005-06.
An enormous increased in the flow of agricultural credit through commercial bank, from
Rs. 52,441 crore in 2003-04 to Rs. 1,16,447 crore in 2005-06, reaching an annual growth of 43%
each year.Doubling of credit, a strategy followed by Government Of India where 95 lakh new
farmers have been brought under the institutional fold and 1,383 agri-clinics opened.
Commercial banks have also played a major role in the promotion of the SHG bank linkage
movement with more than 11.88 lakh groups being linked to banks for provision of credit. Many
reforms has also been taken place like elimination of Service Area Approach, reducing margins,
redefining overdue to coincide with crop cycles, new debt restructuring policies, one time
settlement and relief measures for farmers indebted to non-institutional sources
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10
20
30
40
50
60
Credit Disbursed as a % of Agri-GDP
Credit Disbursed as a % of
Agri-GDP
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AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
Year Agricultural
credit
Disbursed(in
Cr)
Agri-GDF(
inCr)
Credit
Disbursed
as a % of
Agri-GDP
TotalGDP
(inCr)
Agri-
Credit as a
% of Total
GDP
Total Bank
Credit
Disbursed
By CBs(in
Cr)
Agri-
Credit as a
% of Total
CBsCredit
1970-71 818 142581 0.57 296278 0.28 4684 17.5
1975-76 1675 159337 1.05 343924 0.49 10877 15.4
1980-81 3436 167770 2.05 401128 0.86 25371 13.5
1985-86 7159 198353 3.61 513990 1.39 56067 12.8
1990-91 10188 2422012 4.21 692871 1.47 116301 8.8
1995-96 23692 275153 8.61 899563 2.63 254015 9.3
2000-01 38127 314252 12.13 1203079 3.17 511434 7.5
2005-06 180486 364576 49.51 1680343 10.74 1507077 12.0
Source: Handbook ofstatistics onthe Indian Economy (RBI), 2005-06, Economic Survey (GoI), 2006-07
Currently, there are 33,478 commercial bank branches in rural and semi-urban centres in
the country. Out of these, there are about 12,340 branches in the rural and semi urban areas of
the Central, Eastern and North-Eastern Regions, where the majority of the financially excluded
population live. It is understood that each branch of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh services at
least 4,000-5,000 borrowers, with 6-7 field officers per branch. Given the existing staff strength,
it should be possible for commercial banks (including RRBs) to provide access to credit to at
least 250 hitherto excluded households per annum at each of their existing rural and semi-urban
branches. For this, banks will have to strengthen their staff and use a variety of delivery
mechanisms.
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III.PROBLEMS OF THE MULTI AGENCY APPROACH
Theadaptation of multi agency approach in Agri financing has created many problems in
efficient credit disbursal. In order to examine the problems RBI constituted a working group in
August 1976, under the chairmanship of C.E Kamath.
The following problems were
1) Due to the uncoordinated manner of credit disbursal and the existence of number of
agencies retailing credit in a common area resulted in over financing, under financing,
multiple financing, financial indiscipline.
2) The inability of credit agencies to formulate and develop meaningful agricultural credit
programmes on an area approach basis. It has created a competition among the
commercial banks themselves and among the commercial banks and cooperatives which
result in a waste of expenditure.
3) When more than one credit agency making claim on the same income at the time of
recovery of loan becomes difficult because in a situation like this the borrower will try
to play one agency against other.
4) Besides the problems associated with the multi agency approach, the successive reviews
of the working of institutional credit system have revealed lacunae in the procedure and
organization of the system in the country. Over the large parts of the country, small
farmers have been handicapped for want of access to cooperative credit. An important
feature of cooperative credit has been its tendency to flow mainly to large cultivators
because
i. Land ownership was a dominant criterion for admission of new members
and extending credit
ii. Cooperative leadership and management were mainly in hands of bigger
farmers
iii. Lack of technical expertise and operational efficiency inhibited theapplication of the principle of lending related to possible increase in
income to a large coverage of small farmers.
Also the measure factors which inhibits the public sector banks effort to cover small and
marginal farmers extensively were
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a) Weakness in their organizational structure and
b) The conventional land based norm of security
Today also some loopholes present in the banking system due to which the credit disbursal rate is
not in a remarkable growth. The measure problems are
a. Sometimes the credit availability by the bank processes at very slow rate. So, at the time
of money required if it is not available then borrower will approach to local
moneylenders.
b. In that case even if money lenders take high rate of interest but to process the work at the
right time rural people heavily depend on them.
c. Repayment period of loans fixed by banks are shorter than required for the type of
activity financed.
d. At time of fixing the due dates gestation period is not considered.
e. According to income generation due dates of repayment of loan installments were not
fixed
f. Also banks generally do not give loans for consumption. In cases where day-to-day living
itself is at question, banks, their strict conditions on the use of money borrowed and the
numerous delays are avoided.
Typically for RRBs some factors which inhibits advances are
y Availability of staff, access roads to villages, police protection, infrastructure
facilities, like pucca houses to locate branches these are the major hurdles in front of
RRB to make progress.
y Natural calamities in successive years are another major hurdle.
y Frequent fluctuations of Price for farm inputs.
y Very less support from the Government to take care. As 50% of share in RRB, 3
Directors has to nominate on the Board. So how quickly they will work on the
problem and what steps they will be taking to resolve those issues is the main point of
discussion.
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IV.REFORM PROCESS
The significant increase in the credit flow from institutional sources brought forth a
strong sense of expectation from the public sector banks. However, this expectation could not be
sustained as the emphasis throughout was on achieving certain quantitative targets. As a
consequence, inadequate attention was paid to the qualitative aspects of lending resulting in loan
defaults and erosion of repayment ethics, to a greater or lesser extent, by all categories of
borrowers. The end result was a disturbing growth in overdue, which not only hampered the
recycling of scarce resources of banks, but also affected profitability and viability of financial
institutions. Ultimately, financial deepening occurred but the development impact of rural
finance was blunted. In 1991, which is on the eve of reforms, the rural credit delivery system was
in poor shape.
The basic aim of the financial sector reforms was to improve the soundness, efficiency
and productivity of all credit institutions, including rural credit institutions whose financial
health was far from satisfactory. The reforms sought to enhance the areas of commercial
freedom, increase their outreach to the poor and stimulate additional flows to the sector. The
reform programme also included far reaching changes in the incentive regime through
liberalizing interest rates for cooperatives and RRBs, relaxing controls on where, for what
purpose and whom rural financial institutions [RFIs] could lend, introducing prudential norms
and restructuring and recapitalizing of RRBs.
As a result of the reform process, the financial health of commercial banks has improved
in terms of parameters such as capital adequacy, Non Performing Loans and return on assets
consistent with international standards for classification of advances and prudential norms being
applied in almost all areas. However, commercial banks being more focused on profitability tend
to cherry pick and give comparatively less priority to marginal and sub-marginal farmers.
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V.ROLE OF NABARD
A committee appointed by Government of India had reviewed the entire arrangement for
credit disbursal in agriculture and rural development and suggested there should be an
undivided attention authority for development of rural credit system. In 1982 based on
recommendations NABARD was set up by integrating the rural credit functions of other
agencies and Agricultural Credit Department of RBI to provide credit for the promotion of
agriculture, cottage and village industries, handicrafts, other rural crafts and other allied
economic activities in rural areas in order to secure integrated rural development. Since its
inception, NABARD is discharging its mandate through activities relating to credit planning,
financial assistance, institutional development and promotional efforts.
The equity of NABARD is equally held by RBI and Government of India.
NABARD raises its resources through
a. Re-deployment of surplus
b. Borrowing from bilateral and multilateral institutions
c. Borrowing from market
d. Institutional deposits
e. RBI borrowing
Its main role is to develop .implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for rural lending in
support of Government of India policies.
Its main function is to provide financial support to Rural Financing Institution (RFIs), strengthen
institutional capacity of RFIs, monitor and evaluate the programmes and institutions, advise
Government of India and RBI on rural credit, direct the function of RFIs.
Generally NABARD plays following activities:
Appraisal of projects / programme
Disbursal of finance / refinance
Monitoring lending / programs
Resources planning
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Credit planning
Innovation in credit
Integrating new paradigms in policies
Rebuilding
Restructuring
Training
Coordination and liaison
Inspection
Reviews
Operation
y NABARD is responsible for refinance disbursement to commercial banks, State
cooperative banks, State cooperatives, rural development banks, Regional Rural Banks
(RRBs) and other eligible financial institutions. It also sanctions money through its Rural
InfrastructureDevelopment Fund (RIDF) for projects covering irrigation, rural roads
and bridges, health and education, soil conservation and drinking water schemes.
NABARD also offers a Kisan Credit Card Scheme and crop loans under the Rashtriya
Krishi Bima Yojana.
y Also a plan has been developed by NABARD for agricultural and credit and other
financial process, it had to bring Non Government organization (NGOs) and Self Help
Group (SHGs) into the picture. For reducing the transaction cost, a linkage has also been
formed between RFIs and NGOs / SHGs through which NGOs / SHGs can access to
better technology and a large amount of funds. Vikas Volunteer Vahini programme has
also been proposed by NABARD with the help of RFIs to running the credit development
process.
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VI.CREDIT DISBURSEMENT
Banking system disbursed loans of Rs.7, 58,353 crore to agricultural sector as against
targets of Rs 6, 45,500 crore during 2004-05 to 2007-08 showing 117% achievements.
Commercial banks achievements were the highest at 128% [Rs.5, 28,296 crore] as against target
of Rs. 4, 13,200 crore.
Doubling of Agricultural Credit within Three Years
The 'Farm Credit Package' announced by the Government of India in June 2004 stipulated
doubling the flow of institutional credit for agriculture in ensuing three years. For the year 2007-
08, agricultural credit target was fixed for Rs. 2, 25,000 crore disbursement my banks, adding 5
million farmers to their portfolio. As against this all banks (including cooperative banks, RRBs)
disbursed Rs. 2, 54,657 crore forming 113% of the target. During 2007-08, 75.36 lakh new
farmers were financed by commercial banks and RRBs.As per the budget target of Rs.2,80,000
crore during the year 2008-09,the amount disbursed by all banks (including cooperative
banks,RRBs ) is placed at Rs.2,64,455 crore.
Crop loans disbursed increased progressively from Rs. 54.977 crore in 2003-04 to Rs. 1,
38,455 crore in 2006-07, recording a growth of 151%. Investment credit [irrigation, land
development, farm mechanization] rose from Rs.32, 004 crore to Rs.90, 945 crore, recording a
growth of 184%.
VI.1. Irrigation
Uncertainties of rainfall and relatively short duration of rain makes irrigation the most
important tool for agricultural development in India. About 32% of operational holding were
irrigated in 2000-01.Among different sources of irrigation, canals covered 28% of total area
irrigated, tube wells irrigated nearly 40% and wells irrigated another 18%.
Net irrigated area increased from 21 mn ha in 1950-51 to 60 mn ha in 200-01;as a % tonet shown area, the increase was from 18% in 1950-51 to 42% in 2000-01.
The Government of India has taken up irrigation potential creation through public
funding and is assisting farmers to create potential on their own farms.Substancial irrigation has
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been created through major and medium irrigation schemes. The total irrigation potential in the
country has increased from 81.1 mn ha in 1991-92 to 102.77 mn ha March 2007.
VI.2.cropping pattern
In India, a large variety of crops are grown. Over the years, some changes had taken place in the
crop pattern. Area under broad group of crops showed that food grains covered 63% of total
cropped area in 2005-06,coming down from 77% in 1950-51 and 69% in 1990-91.Area under
Fiber crops also declined. Share of all other crops like oil seeds, fruits, vegetables, condiments
and spices and sugarcane rose over the same periods, indicating diversification in crop pattern
over time.
VI.3.crop production
For the consecutive years (2005-06 to 2007-08), food grains production recorded an
average annual increase of over 10 millions tonnes.The total food grains production in 2008-09
Crop
groups
(crop-wise distribution of gross cropped area)
% share of area to gross cropped area
1950-51 1990-91 2005-06
Food grains 76.7 69 63.31
Oilseeds
8.3 13.5 16
Fruits 0.6 1.4 2.02
Vegetables 1.2 2.1 2.81
Condiments 0.9 1.3 1.46
Sugarcane
1.3 2.1 2.41
Fiber 5.1 4.6 4.97
Other crops 5.9 6 7.01
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was estimated at 233.88 million tonnes as against 230.78 million tonnes in 2007-08.However,
the production of major commercial crops (oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton, jute) declined in 2008-09
compared to 2007-08 levels which has shown in the below table.
(Million tonnes)
Crop 2007-08 2008-09
Target Achievement Target Achievement
Rice 93.00 96.69 97.00 99.18
Wheat 75.50 78.57 78.50 80.68
CoarseCereals 37.50 40.76 42.00 40.03
Pulses 15.50 14.76 15.50 14.57
Food grains 221.50 230.78 233.00 234.47
Oilseeds 30.00 29.76 31.75 27.72
Sugarcane 310.00 348.19 340.00 285.03
Cotton 22.00 25.88 26.00 22.28
Jute &Mesta 11.00 11.21 11.00 10.37
Source: Department of Agriculture & Cooperation
VI.4.Allied Agricultural Activity
Broadly agriculture sector includes allied activity like livestock, forestry and fishery. The
livestock sector contributed over 5.26% to the total GDP during 2006-07 and contributes about
31.7% GDP from total agriculture and allied activities. The 11
th
five year plan envisages anoverall growth of 6-7% per annum for the sector. In 2007-08, this sector contributed 104.8
million tonnes of milk, 53.5 billion eggs, 44 million kg wool and 2.6 million tonnes of meat.
Dairy: India ranks first in the world in milk production, which increased from 17 million
tonnes (MT) in 1950-51 to about 104.84 MT by 2007-08.The per capita availability of milk has
also increased from 112 grams per day in 1968-69 to 252 grams during 2007-08,but it is still low
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compared to the world average of 265 grams/day. About 80% of milk produced in the country is
handled by in the unorganized sector and remaining 20% is shared equally by cooperative and
private dairies. Over 1.28 lakh village-level dairy cooperative societies, spread over 346 districts
in the country, collect about 22.8 million litres of milk per day and market about 18.9 million
litres. The efforts of the Government in the dairy sector are concentrated on promotion of dairy
activities in non-operation flood area with emphasis on building up cooperative infrastructure,
revitalization of sick dairy cooperatives and federations and creation of infrastructure in the state
for production of quality milk and milk products.
Livestock sector contributes about 27% of the G.D.P. from agriculture and allied
activities. This sector has excellent forward and backward linkages, which p-promote many
industries and increase the incomes of vulnerable groups of the society such as agricultural
labourers and small and marginal farmers. India possesses the second largest livestock
population in the world. Production and export of poultry products have shown considerable
growth in the recent decades. Export of such products to countries including Bangladesh,
Srilanka, Middle East, Japan, Denmark, USA, and Angola augers well for this industry. As per
estimated provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2007,the annual
chicken meat production in India is around 2.2 million tonnes.The value of exports was around
Rs.441 crore during 2007-08.Fish production increased from 6.8 million tonnes in 2006-07 to 7.3
million tonnes in 2007-08.
Fishing, aquaculture and allied activities are reported to have provided livelihood to
over 14 million people in 2006-07 apart from being a major foreign exchange earner. India is the
7th
largest producer of fish in the world and is 2nd
in inland fish production. Fish production
increased from 6.8 million tonnes in 2006-07 to 7.3 million tonnes in 2007-08.