Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2011-12

This dataset provides the agriculture statistics of Odisha, India, for the agricultural year 2011-12 (July 2011 to June 2012), taken from the state's annual publication Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2011-12 (Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Odisha). Most tables cover every district with a state total; a few give state-level time series and comparisons with All-India. The tables cover crop area, production and yield by district, season (kharif and rabi) and crop for all major crops, including paddy (autumn, winter and summer), wheat, maize, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, potato, onion, spices, sugarcane and tobacco, with HYV and local varieties where reported, plus final state-level estimates; rainfall: the 2011 rainfall scenario by season against the state normal of 1451.2 mm, monthly normal rainfall and rainy days, monthly and weekly rainfall for 2011, and the June-September monsoon from 1992 to 2011, plus monthly temperature and humidity; land use, kharif, rabi and gross cropped area, cropping intensity, HYV area, mixed cropping, other pulses area, fruit crops and floricultural crops; inputs and infrastructure: fertiliser consumption by district and season, fertiliser and seed sale rates, seed distribution and replacement rates, pesticides, farm mechanisation, the share of electricity used for agriculture (1992-93 to 2011-12), irrigation potential (provisional) and irrigated area by crop, Jalanidhi irrigation structures, and district key indicators; agricultural credit plan achievements by district; crop insurance under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme for 2011-12; paddy procurement in Kharif Marketing Season 2011-12 (up to 27.04.2012), seed cotton procurement, minimum support prices (2011-12 and 2012-13) and factory-wise sugar production (2004-05 to 2011-12); productivity by agro-climatic zone and district (2006-07 to 2011-12) and the rice series from 1990-91; agricultural GDP growth for Odisha and All-India (1999-2000 to 2011-12); and supporting data on district population, density, sex ratio and literacy (Census 2011, provisional), operational holdings (Agriculture Census 2005-06), workers including cultivators and agricultural labourers (Census 2001), marketable surplus (2001-02 to 2011-12), villages with crop loss (2004 to 2011), crop substitution, departmental farms and driage ratios. 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.