Marketed Surplus and Post-harvest Losses of Jowar - Agmarknet

SUMMARY
1. In view of the persistent demand from the user organisations and after inter-departmental
consultations 47 agricultural commodities were identified for undertaking the national surveys for
estimation of marketable surplus & post harvest losses.
2. To start with 12 commodities namely Paddy, Jowar, Wheat, Bajra, Maize, Barley, Ragi, Red
Gram, Green Gram, Black Gram, Gram and Lentil (Masoor) were covered
3 The study aims at providing reliable estimates of marketable surplus and post harvest losses at
producer’s level, both at National level and State level.
4 The survey covered 100 districts selected from 25 states in accordance with the methodology
approved by the Technical Committee in consultation with the Indian Agriculture Statistical
Research Institute (IASRI), New Delhi. From 100 selected districts, 1500 villages were selected.
Out of 1500 villages selected, 460 villages were growing jowar. In other words, 30.67% of the
villages selected were jowar-growing villages.
5 The total area under jowar was estimated at 10480.40 thousand hectares. Out of this an average
of 1153.02 thousand hectares i.e., nearly 11% was grown as irrigated. The State-wise distribution
of area under jowar shows that maximum area was in the State of Maharashtra (5308.04 thousand
hectares), followed by Karnataka (1915.07 thousand hectares), Madhya Pradesh (872.13 thousand
hectares), Andhra Pradesh (714.00 thousand hectares), Rajasthan (572.45 thousand hectares),
Uttar Pradesh (381.96 thousand hectares), Tamil Nadu (380.13 thousand hectares), and
Gujarat(279.00 thousand hectares). These States account for 99.45 per cent area under jowar.
Maharashtra had the highest 12.32 percentage of area under irrigation. In other states irrigation
potential seemed to have not been fully exploited.
(Para-5)
6 The coverage of the High Yielding Varieties was of the order of 6636.33 thousand hectares i.e.,
63.32 %. This is a reflection of the successful efforts made by the Ministry of Agriculture for
promotion of High Yielding Varieties.
(Para-5.2)
7 The production of jowar was estimated at 10652.19 thousand tonnes, out of which the contribution
of irrigated jowar was 1383.80 thousand tonnes i.e., 12.99%. The contribution of High Yielding
Varieties in production was estimated at 7924.37 thousand Tonnes or 74.39%. This further
signifies the need for promotion of HYV to meet the competitive marketing environment.
(Para-5.3, 5)
8 The total requirement of jowar for farm family consumption i.e., retention for consumption at
farmer level and purchases, was estimated at 5111.07 thousand tonnes, which was 47.98% of the
estimated production.
(Para-6.6.1)
9 The estimates of retention for various purposes and purchases of jowar to meet the total
requirement of farm family were as under :
i) For farm family consumption - 34.20 % (Para-6.2.1)
ii) For consumption by permanent - 3.26 % (Para-6.3.1)
labour and temporary labour.
iii) Estimated purchases for - 10.84 % (Para-6.5.1)
Consumption.
iv) For seed purpose - 1.04 % (Para-6.7.1)
v) For animal feed - 2.29 % (Para-6.8.1)
vi) For payment in cash and kind - 1.61 % (Para-6.10.1)