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The Economic Survey, tabled successful Parliament connected Thursday (January 29, 2026), has noted that the mean yearly maturation complaint successful the agriculture and allied assemblage implicit the past 5 years has been astir 4.4% astatine changeless prices. However, successful the 2nd 4th of 2025-26, the agriculture assemblage registered a maturation of 3.5%, astir 1 percent constituent little than the average. “The decadal maturation of 4.45% (2015-16 to 2024-25), the highest successful examination to erstwhile decades, has chiefly resulted from the beardown show successful livestock (7.1%) and sportfishing and aquaculture (8.8%), followed by the harvest assemblage astatine 3.5%,” it added.
Foodgrains accumulation rises
The country’s foodgrains accumulation witnessed a dependable increase, contempt definite challenges, the Survey said. “India’s foodgrain accumulation is estimated to person reached 3,577.3 lakh metric tonne (LMT) successful Agriculture Year (AY) 2024-25, an summation of 254.3 LMT implicit the erstwhile year. This maturation has been driven by higher output of rice, wheat, maize and coarse cereals,” it added.
Scope for enhancing productivity
The Survey recovered that portion the mean yearly maturation complaint (AAGR) successful agriculture and allied activities has shown improvement, exceeding the planetary mean of 2.9% implicit the aforesaid period, determination remains important imaginable to heighten cultivation productivity.
“Yields crossed respective crops, including cereals, maize, soybeans, and pulses, proceed to way planetary averages,” it said, suggesting greater efforts to accelerate the integration of newer varieties of seeds and to promote farmers to follow prime seeds done tract demonstrations and the dissemination of palmy husbandman experiences.
“A mode guardant towards amended implementation could beryllium done the engagement of strengthened hold services and by integrating Farmer-Producer Organisations (FPOs), Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) and Self Help Groups (SHGs) into the implementation framework,” the Survey pointed out.
“The strengthening of cooperatives and the emergence of farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), person further expanded entree to credit, innovative technology, and businesslike worth chains,” the Survey said adding that these entities play a captious relation successful empowering tiny and marginal farmers by facilitating corporate bargaining and ensuring just prices for their produce.
“Promoting climate-resilient cultivation practices, specified arsenic drip irrigation and sprinkler systems, arsenic good arsenic diversifying to high-yield, an due harvest premix of clime resilient/drought resistant crops, is captious for sustainability,” it concluded.
