Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2007-08

This dataset provides the agriculture statistics of Odisha (then Orissa), India, for the agricultural year 2007-08 (July 2007 to June 2008), taken from the state's annual publication Orissa Agriculture Statistics 2007-08 (Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production). Many tables cover every district with a state total; others give state-level summaries, time series and comparisons with other Indian states. The tables cover an overview of agriculture in the state, harvesting periods, and crop condition in 2007-08, when kharif floods struck three times and 2.29 lakh hectares suffered crop loss of 50% and above; final state-level area, yield and production by season for all major crops, including rice, cereals, pulses, oilseeds and fibres, crop coverage and HYV coverage; district-wise area, yield and production of sweet potato, potato, onion, other vegetables, chillies, coriander, garlic, turmeric, ginger, total spices, sugarcane and tobacco, and kharif, rabi and total cropped area; rainfall: monthly normal rainfall and rainy days, monthly and weekly rainfall for 2007, and the June-September monsoon from 1992 to 2007, plus monthly temperature and humidity; land use, kharif paddy coverage, kharif, rabi and gross cropped area, cropping intensity, mixed cropping, pulses area, fruit crops and floricultural crops; inputs and infrastructure: fertiliser consumption by district, seed supply and district seed distribution, pesticides, farm mechanisation, power consumption for agriculture (1990-91 to 2007-08), irrigation potential and irrigated area by crop, captive irrigation, and district key indicators; crop loans and the agricultural credit plan by district; crop insurance under the Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana and how compensation is calculated; the paddy minimum support price with rice procurement and production, and minimum support prices for 2008-09; yields compared with other states (2005-06), Odisha yields from 2004-05 to 2007-08, and the rice series from 1990-91; agriculture department spending under plan and non-plan schemes; and supporting data on operational holdings (Agriculture Census 2000-01), marketable surplus (2001-02 to 2007-08) and district rice surplus, and the administrative set-up of the state by district. Area is in thousand hectares, production in thousand tonnes 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, planners, researchers and analysts studying crop production, input use and agricultural development in Odisha.