Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2005-06

This dataset provides the agriculture statistics of Odisha (then Orissa), India, for the agricultural year 2005-06 (July 2005 to June 2006), taken from the state's annual publication Orissa Agricultural Statistics 2005-06 (Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Orissa). Most tables cover every district of the state with a state total; others give state-level time series and comparisons with other Indian states and All-India. The tables cover crop area, production and yield by district, season (kharif and rabi) and crop for all major crops, including paddy and rice (autumn, winter and summer), maize, ragi, jowar, bajra, small millets, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, vegetables, spices, sugarcane and tobacco, with HYV and local varieties, revised state estimates for 2005-06 and fully revised estimates for 2004-05, district yield rates of irrigated kharif rice (2002 to 2005), and the rice area, yield and production series from 1990-91 to 2005-06; rainfall: monthly normal rainfall and rainy days, monthly and weekly rainfall for 2005, and June-September rainfall from 1992 to 2005, with temperature and humidity at weather stations; land use, cultivated, kharif, rabi and gross cropped area, cropping intensity, HYV area, mixed cropping, and area under fruits and flowers; inputs: fertiliser (N, P, K) consumption by district, fertiliser and seed sale rates, seed distribution and replacement rates, compost and green manuring, farm mechanisation, electricity use in agriculture (1990-91 to 2004-05), irrigation potential, private irrigation (1996-97 to 2005-06), irrigated area by crop, and soil test values; crop loans (1995-96 to 2005-06) and the annual credit plan, crop insurance coverage and compensation (2000 to 2005), minimum support prices (2006-07), paddy procurement (1995-96 to 2005-06) and marketable surplus (2001-02 to 2005-06); yield rates of major crops in Orissa, other states and All-India (2003-04); and supporting data on population and workers (Census 2001), operational holdings (Agriculture Census 1995-96), villages with crop loss (1999 to 2005), departmental farms and quality seed production, irrigation rates, scheme-wise expenditure and staff position, 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, and district names are spelt the same way in every table. The figures are aggregates and contain no personal information. The dataset is useful for policymakers, agricultural planners, researchers and analysts studying crop production, input use and agricultural development in Odisha.