Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2009-10

This dataset provides the agriculture statistics of Odisha, India, for the agricultural year 2009-10 (July 2009 to June 2010), taken from the state's annual publication Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2009-10 (Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Odisha). Most tables cover every district with a state total; some 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 rice (kharif and summer), wheat, maize, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, potato, onion, vegetables and spices, with crop-group totals, plus final state-level estimates and harvesting periods; rainfall: the 2009 rainfall scenario against the state normal of 1451.2 mm, monthly normal rainfall and rainy days, monthly and weekly rainfall for 2009, and the June-September monsoon from 1992 to 2009, plus monthly temperature and humidity; land use, kharif, rabi and gross cropped area, cropping intensity, mixed cropping, other pulses area, fruit crops and floricultural crops; inputs and infrastructure: fertiliser consumption by district and compared with other states (2005-06 to 2009-10), fertiliser and seed sale rates, seed distribution and replacement rates, seed processing plants, pesticides, farm mechanisation, the share of electricity used for agriculture (1992-93 to 2009-10), soil testing facilities, irrigation potential and irrigated area by crop, captive irrigation, Jalanidhi lift irrigation, and district key indicators; agricultural credit plan achievements by district; crop insurance under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (1999-2000 to 2010-11) and the Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (2008 to 2010); spending under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) and the National Food Security Mission (NFSM); paddy and seed cotton procurement, minimum support prices (2009-10 and 2010-11) and factory-wise sugar production (2004-05 to 2009-10); yields by agro-climatic zone (2006-07 to 2009-10), productivity compared with neighbouring states (2007-08 to 2009-10) and All-India (1970-71 to 2009-10), and the rice series from 1990-91; agricultural GDP growth (1999-2000 to 2010-11); crop damage from pests, diseases and moisture stress in 2009, and villages with crop loss (2004 to 2009); and supporting data on population and agricultural workers (1951 to 2001), population and literacy (Census 2011, provisional), operational holdings (Agriculture Census 2000-01), workers (Census 2001), blocks, gram panchayats and villages, marketable surplus (2001-02 to 2009-10), crop substitution, departmental farms, driage ratios and conversion factors. 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.