Government of Tamil Nadu Department of Economics and Statistics Season and Crop Report 2005-06

6. AREA, PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY

Factors such as fertility of land, monsoon behaviour, rainfall, irrigation,, application of fertilizers, climatic conditions, marketing facilities, prices, availability of agricultural labourers etc. determine the area and productivity of any crop. The cropwise analysis of production between the current year and previous year is presented in the table below. The production of foodgrains during the year under report is 6116145 tonnes as against 6146044 tonnes in 04-05 recording a decrease of 29899 tonnes or 0.5%. Rice is major constituent accounting for 85.2% of the total foodgrains production in the state. Cropwise production of foodgrains is given in the following table. CROPWISE PRODUCTION OF FOODGRAINS (in tonnes) Crop A CEREALS Rice Jowar (Cholam) Bajra (Cumbu) Ragi Maize Korra Varagu Samai Other cereals Sub Total (A) B . PULSES Bengalgram Redgram Greengram Blackgram Horsegram Other pulses 05-06 Production 5209433 231449 94799 131914 241217 665 6676 19604 3127 5938884 4007 20400 45881 70758 22023 13934 04-05 Production 5061622 252063 124300 154085 294717 793 10455 27866 3712 5929613 3942 28979 61760 82998 20110 18642 82.46 4.10 2.02 2.51 4.80 0.01 0.17 0.45 0.06 96.48 0.06 0.47 1.00 1.35 0.33 0.30

% 85.18 3.78 1.55 2.16 3.94 0.01 0.11 0.32 0.05 97.10 0.07 0.33 0.75 1.16 0.36 0.23