Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLE 3.2
Percentage of area sown to modern rice and wheat varieties, by state
Period/
Andhra
Madhya
Uttar
West
All
commodity
Pradesh
Haryana
Pradesh
Punjab
Pradesh
Bengal
India
Rice
1966-68
8.43
n.a.
n.a.
5.29
4.09
2.67
4.88
1969-71
18.35
n.a.
n.a.
40.40
16.09
11.30
15.34
1972-74
54.16
n.a.
n.a.
81.68
24.83
14.92
25.97
1975-77
62.09
n.a.
n.a.
89.84
42.01
23.29
35.39
1978-80
69.49
n.a.
n.a.
93.44
45.78
33.82
42.56
1981-83
82.82
n.a.
n.a.
95.15
51.18
35.88
50.10
1984-86
87.50
n.a.
n.a.
95.31
65.38
39.36
56.92
1987-89
85.29
n.a.
n.a.
92.62
71.14
50.52
60.09
1990-92
90.58
n.a.
n.a.
93.45
81.88
58.59
65.17
1993-95
90.13
n.a.
n.a.
93.22
84.03
65.98
70.92
1996-98
95.79
n.a.
n.a.
94.61
89.54
76.06
76.92
1999-2001
88.75
n.a.
95.35
91.91
72.57
80.27
Wheat
1966-68
n.a.
—
—
—
—
n.a.
17.96
1969-71
n.a.
55.80
—
69.12
—
n.a.
35.38
1972-74
n.a.
—
—
—
—
n.a.
57.93
1975-77
n.a.
88.66
—
—
—
n.a.
69.62
1978-80
n.a.
91.89
—
98.04
—
n.a.
70.09
1981-83
n.a.
—
—
—
—
n.a.
75.83
1984-86
n.a.
94.88
—
—
—
n.a.
—
1987-89
n.a.
—
—
—
—
n.a.
—
1990-92
n.a.
98.00
64.32
100.00
96.43
n.a.
87.77
1993-95
n.a.
96.82
67.29
99.91
98.13
n.a.
90.16
1996-98
n.a.
96.77
73.73
100.00
96.95
n.a.
88.91
1999-2001
n.a.
97.78
74.10
100.00
—
n.a.
86.32
SOURCES
: Rice statistics from IRRI (2004, Tables 8 and 35); wheat statistics from GOI (2005).
NOTES
: n.a. indicates not applicable; — indicates not available.
jor importer of 36-64 million tons by the year 2020 (Bhalla, Hazell, and Kerr
1999).
8
As for any projections, the differences in results arise from the under-
lying assumptions. A study by Bhalla, Hazell, and Kerr (1999) assumes a large
expenditure elasticity for eggs and meat (1.25), which leads to a prediction in
demand for animal feeds of up to 108 million tons by 2020, which seems to be
off the mark from other available studies.
8. For more references, see Bhalla and Hazell (1997), Bhalla, Hazell, and Kerr (1999), Dyson
and Hanchate (2000), Kumar and Mittal (2003), and references therein.
