Question

though total food grain production in India has been increasing in recent years there was a decrease in 2009 to 2010 what could be the reason​

Answer 1

India’s foodgrain production increased marginally to 252.23 million tonnes in the 2015-16 crop year, as per the third advance estimates, despite setback due to deficient rainfall and shortage of water in reservoirs.

Production of rice, coarse cereals,pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane ,cotton and jute was lower due to erratic rainfall during the 2015 monsoon season.

“As per the 3 rd advance estimates for 2015-16 total foodgrains production in the country has been higher than that in the last year. Total foodgrains production during 2015-16, estimated at 252.23 million tonnes, has been higher by 0.21 million tonnes over the production of 252.02 million tonnes during 2014-15,” the ministry said in a release.

Rice production during 2015-16 is estimated at 103.36 million tonnes, which is lower by 2.12 million tonnes than its production of 105.48 million tonnes during 2014-15.

Production of wheat estimated at 94.04 million tonnes is higher by 7.51 million tonnes than the production of 86.53 million tonnes of wheat during 2014-15. Total production of coarse cereals is estimated at 37.78 million tonnes which is lower by 5.08 million tonnes as compared to their production of 42.86 million tonnes during 2014-15.

Output of pulses is estimated at 17.06 million tonnes during 2015-16, marginally lower than the previous year’s production of 17.15 million tonnes.

With a decline of 1.6 million tonnes over the previous year’s production’s total oilseeds production in the country during 2015-16 is estimated at 25.9 million tonnes.

Production of sugarcane estimated at 346.72 million tones, is lower by 15.61 million tonnes than its production during 2014-15.

Production of Cotton estimated at 30.52 million bales (of 170 kg each) is also lower by 4.28 million bales than its production of 34.805 million bales during 2014-15.

Production of jute is estimated at 9.92 million bales (of 180 kg each) which is lower by 0.70 million bales than its production of 10.62 million bales during 2014-15.

Answer 2

The food production in India declined drastically in 2009-2010 due to drought

• Despite overall growth in food production in India in recent years, there was a decline in food production in 2009-2010
• The decline is estimated at 7.56% during the summer output caused due to destructive drought
• This draught was the worst one that had hit India in the past 30 years
• Cyclone Aila which had occurred over the Bay of Bengal had disturbed the monsoon pattern completely.
• Due to insufficient rainfall distributed erratically over the country, owing to widespread droughts, the production of Kharif crops was adversely affected
• The worst hit were crops of rice along with coarse cereals and rice

Thus the reason for the decline in food production during 2009-2010 is the countrywide drought.

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