The production of onions in 2022-23 is estimated to be 302.08 lakh tonne in comparison with 316.87 lakh tonne in 2021-22. For potatoes, the production estimates in 2022-23 are round 601.42 lakh tonne, in comparison with 561.76 lakh tonne estimated for 2021-22. File
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Fruit and vegetable production in the nation can contact 355.25 million tonnes (MT) in 2023-24, in keeping with the primary superior estimates of space and production of horticultural crops launched by the Union Agriculture Ministry on Thursday. The space of production shall be 28.77 million hectares. The last estimates for 2022-23 stand at 355.48 MT in 28.44 million hectares. In 2021-22, the horticulture production was 347.18 MT from 28.04 million hectares.
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The knowledge for 2022-23 exhibits a 2.39% (8.30 MT) enhance in production over that of 2021-22. “An increase in area of 1.41% or 0.40 million hectares is observed in 2022-23 (final estimates) over 2021-22,” the Ministry mentioned.
Fruit production is estimated to be 110.21 MT in 2022-23 (last estimates), primarily because of will increase in production of apples, bananas, grapes, mangoes and watermelon. Production of greens has elevated from 209.14 MT in 2021-22 to 212.55 MT in 2022-23. “This is mainly contributed by increase registered in all vegetables except Chillies (Green), Onion, Radish, Tapioca and Tomato,” the federal government launch mentioned.
The production of onions in 2022-23 is estimated to be 302.08 lakh tonne in comparison with 316.87 lakh tonne in 2021-22. For potatoes, the production estimates in 2022-23 are round 601.42 lakh tonne, in comparison with 561.76 lakh tonne estimated for 2021-22. For tomatoes, the production in 2022-23 could possibly be round 204.25 lakh tonne, in comparison with 206.94 lakh tonne estimated for 2021-22.
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In the primary advance estimates for 2023-24, the production is estimated to be about 355.25 MT, which is lower than the estimates for 2022-23. “An increase in area of 1.15% or 3.27 lakh hectares is observed in 2023-24 (first estimate) over 2022-23 (final estimate),” the federal government mentioned. “The production of fruits expected to reach 112.08 MT, mainly due to increases in production of Banana, Mandarin and Mango. Production of Vegetables is envisaged to be around 209.39 million tonnes. Increase is expected in production of Cabbage, Cauliflower, Pumpkin, Tapioca, Tomato and other vegetables,” the Centre added.
While the production of tomatoes is predicted to extend by 1.93% over the earlier year’s numbers, the production of onions is predicted to be round 254.73 lakh tonne, a lot lower than the 302.08 lakh tonne of final year. Production of potatoes in 2023-24 can also be anticipated to be lesser at round 589.94 lakh tonne in comparison with round 601.42 lakh tonne final year.
