Five Decades of Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2020

This dataset provides long-term agriculture statistics of Odisha, India, taken from the publication Five Decades of Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2020 (Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Odisha). Most tables are state-level annual time series running from 1970-71 to 2019-20; some are district-wise with a state total, and some compare Odisha with other Indian states, All-India and other countries. The tables cover area, yield and production of every major crop and crop group from 1970-71 to 2019-20, including rice, maize, ragi, jowar, bajra and small millets, total cereals, green gram, black gram, arhar, kulthi, cowpea, Bengal gram, field pea, lentil and other pulses, total pulses and foodgrains, groundnut, sesamum, castor, niger, sunflower, safflower, linseed, mustard and total oilseeds, jute, mesta, cotton, sunhemp and total fibres, potato, onion, sweet potato, total vegetables, spices and condiments, sugarcane and tobacco, along with area under high-yielding varieties, the overall cropping scenario and compound growth rates of principal crops; land use: periodic land use classification from 1950-51, net area sown, gross cropped area and cropping intensity from 1970-71, district cropping intensity from 1994-95, and district cultivated and kharif paddy area for 2019-20; rainfall: district normal rainfall and rainy days, monthly rainfall from 1992 to 2019, onset and withdrawal of the monsoon from 1970 to 2019, and annual rainfall against normal with the years of natural calamity, plus the agro-climatic zones of the state; inputs: seed supply and seed replacement rates from 1995-96, fertiliser use and the N:P:K ratio from 1970-71, state-wise fertiliser consumption, source-wise irrigation from 1975-76, electricity use and farm power availability from 1990-91, and crop and term loans from 2000-01; comparisons of area, yield and production with the major producing states and All-India (2017-18 and 2018-19) and with other countries (2017); and supporting data on population growth in Odisha and India since 1901, district population, workers (Census 2011) and operational holdings (Agriculture Census 2015-16), marketable surplus of rice, cereals, pulses and oilseeds (2001-02 to 2018-19), minimum support prices (2015-16 to 2019-20), quality specifications for procurement, conversion factors between primary and secondary commodities, and the administrative set-up of the department. Area is in thousand hectares, production in thousand tonnes (fibres in thousand bales) and yield in kg per hectare unless a column states otherwise. Units are given in the column names. The figures are aggregates and contain no personal information. The dataset is useful for policymakers, agricultural planners, researchers and analysts studying long-term trends in crop production, input use and agricultural development in Odisha.