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| India's Agricultural Land |
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| India's Green Revolution is an awesome success story. Improved farming techniques and the use of irrigation and high-yield grains have greatly increased agricultural production. From being an importer of food after independence; India has now become an exporter of food. |
| Arable/ Irrigated land sizes Source - UN Food and Agriculture Organization (Million hectares) |
| Absolute size of Arable land Irrigated Area |
| India 170 45.8 |
| World 1444 249.6 |
| World Rank Second Second |
| World Production of Wheat, Rice and Corn, 2000 Source - UN Food and Agriculture Organization/ 2002 World Almanac (in thousands of metric tons) |
| Country China India USA France Russia Canada Australia Turkey Germany Pakistan Argentina |
| Wheat 99370 74251 60512 37559 36000 26804 19550 16500 21634 21079 16500 |
| Rice 190168 134150 8669 107 440 -------- 1400 338 -------- 7000 858 |
| Corn 105231 11500 253208 16395 1800 6827 365 2500 3241 1351 16200 |
| The top rice exporters of Rice in the world Source - UN Food and Agriculture Organiztion (in thousands of metric tons) |
| Leading Exporter Thailand Vietnam China USA India |
| 1999 6839 4600 2819 2668 2571 |
| 1998 6356 3800 3792 3113 4800 |
| 1997 3240 3000 1010 2296 2133 |
| 1996 5454 3003 NA 2640 2511 |
| 1995 6197 1988 NA 3083 4913 |
| Commercial catch of fish, crustaceans and Mollusks, 1999 Source - US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin., National Marine Fisheries (in thousands of metric tons, live weight) |
| Country China Peru Japan India Chile USA Indonesia Russia Thailand Norway |
| 1999 41513 8438 5936 5352 5325 5228 4797 4210 3608 3086 |
| 1997 35038 7877 6689 5378 6084 5448 4404 4715 3488 3223 |
| 1992 16579 4508 8502 4233 6502 5604 3439 5611 3246 2561 |
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