According to the second advance estimate of horticulture production released by the Ministry of Agriculture, India’s horticultural production is expected to increase by 2.93 per cent to a record level of 329.86 million tons (MT) in 2020-21. Last year, the country’s horticulture crop production came in at 320.47 MT. The increase can be seen mainly in all horticulture crops such as fruits, vegetables, aromatic and medicinal plants, spices and plantation crops, except flowers.
Among the three most widely consumed vegetable crops – potato, onion and tomato – the maximum increase in production has been seen in potato, with a surge of over 10.55 per cent.
While potato production is estimated to increase to 53.69 MT in 2020-21 against 48.56 MT in 2019-20, the production of onion and tomato are estimated to be just marginally higher – for onion it is 26.92 MT in 2020-21 up from 26.09 MT last year and for tomato, it is 21 MT in 2020-21 compared to 20.55 MT in 2019-20
Source: theprint.in