Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare has released the Third Advanced Estimate (2018-19) of Area and Production of various horticulture crops. This is based on the information received from different state and union territories and other source agencies.
Total horticulture production in India in 2018-19 is estimated to be 313.85 million tonnes which is 0.69% higher than the horticulture production of 311.71 million tonnes in 2017-18.
With 25.49 million hectare area under horticulture crops has remained broadly at the same level of 25.43 million hectare in 2017-18.
Overall increase in 2018-19 is observed in production of fruits, vegetables, spices, flowers and honey whereas decrease is observed in production of plantation and aromatics & medicinal crops as compared to 2017-18.
Fruits production in year is estimated to be around 98.57 million tonnes, compared to 97.36 million tonnes in 2017-18.
Vegetables production is estimated to be around 185.88 million tonnes, which is 0.81% higher than the production last year.
Onion Production is estimated to be around 23.48 million tonnes, which is 0.95% higher than the production last year.
Potato production is estimated to be around 53.03 million tonnes, which is 3.4% higher than the production last year.
Tomato production is estimated to be around 19.39 million tonnes, which is 1.8%, lower than the production last year.
Spices production is estimated to be around 9.22 million tonnes, which is higher than the production last year.
Detailed crop wise horticulture production in the country
