Annual Report 2009-2010 - Department of Agriculture & Co-operation

13.2 Fruits and vegetables, together,
constitute about 92 per cent of the total
horticultural production in the country. The area
under fruit crops is 6.1 million hectare with a
total production of 68.5 million tonnes which
13.3 While India is the second largest producer
of fruits in the world, it the largest producer of
fruits like mango, banana, papaya, sapota,
pomegranate and aonla. About 40 per cent of
the world's mangoes and 30 per cent of the
world's bananas and papayas are produced in
India. In terms of productivity of grapes, India
ranks first in the world.
constituted 34 per cent share in total production
between 2004-05 and 2008-09. The comparison
of area, production and productivity of
fruits between 2004-05 and 2008-09 is given in
Fig. 2.
13.4 Vegetables are an important crop in the
horticulture sector and occupy an area of 8.0
million hectares with a total production of 129.1
million tonnes and have a productivity of 16.2
tonnes/ha. in 2008-09 (Fig. 3).
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