{"id":11419,"date":"2016-05-12T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2016-05-12T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:38:23","slug":"3rd-advance-production-estimates-major-crops-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/3rd-advance-production-estimates-major-crops-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Advance Production Estimates of Major Crops during 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: What is the estimated production of Food grains according to the 3rd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2015-16 which have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 252.23 million tonnes<br \/>\n(b) 225.48 million tonnes<br \/>\n(c) 266.40 million tonnes<br \/>\n(d) 255.32 million tonnes<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 9 May 2016 Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare has release the 3rd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2015-16.<\/li>\n<li>Total food grains production during 2015-16, estimated at 252.23 million tonnes, has been higher by 0.21 million tonnes over the production of 252.02 million tonnes during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Total production of rice during 2015-16 is estimated at 103.36 million tonnes, which is lower by 2.12 million tonnes than its production of 105.48 million tonnes during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Production of wheat estimated at 94.04 million tonnes is higher by 7.51 million tonnes than the production of 86.53 million tonnes of wheat during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Total production of coarse cereals is estimated at 37.78 million tonnes which is lower by 5.08 million tonnes as compared to their production of 42.86 million tonnes during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Total pulses production of 17.06 million tonnes during 2015-16 is marginally lower than the previous year\u2019s production of 17.15 million tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>Production of Cotton estimated at 30.52 million bales (of 170 kg each) is also lower by 4.28 million bales than its production of 34.805 million bales during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Production of sugarcane estimated at 346.72 million tonnes, is lower by 15.61 million tonnes than its production during 2014-15.<br \/>\nThe estimated production of major crops during 2015-16 is as under:<\/li>\n<li>Food grains \u2013 252.23 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Rice \u2013 103.36 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Wheat \u2013 94.04 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Coarse Cereals \u2013 37.78 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Maize \u2013 21.02 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Pulses \u2013 17.06 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Tur \u2013 2.60 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Gram \u2013 7.48 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Oilseeds \u2013 25.9 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Soyabean \u2013 8.92 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Groundnut \u2013 6.89 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Rapeseed &amp; Mustard \u2013 6.85 million tonnes]<\/li>\n<li>Cotton \u2013 30.52 million bales (of 170 kg each)<\/li>\n<li>Sugarcane \u2013 346.72 million tonnes<\/li>\n<li>With a decline of 1.6 million tonnes over the previous year\u2019s production\u2019s total oilseeds production in the country during 2015-16 is estimated at 25.9 million tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>Production of jute is estimated at 9.92 million bales (of 180 kg each) which is lower by 0.70 million bales than its production of 10.62 million bales during 2014-15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145121\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145121<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eands.dacnet.nic.in\/Advance_Estimate\/3rdAdv150216Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eands.dacnet.nic.in\/Advance_Estimate\/3rdAdv150216Eng.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is the estimated production of Food grains according to the 3rd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2015-16 which have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare? (a) 252.23 million tonnes (b) 225.48 million tonnes (c) 266.40 million tonnes (d) 255.32 million tonnes Ans: (a) Related facts: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}