Difference between revisions of "Timeline of food and nutrition in India"
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details |
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| 9000 BC | "Some claim Indian agriculture began by 9000 BC as a result of early cultivation of plants, and domestication of crops and animals."[1] | |
| 3000 BC | "Indians might have domesticated buffalo (the river type) 5000 years ago" | |
| 500 BC | "Over 2500 years ago, Indian farmers had discovered and begun farming many spices and sugarcane" | |
| 1948–1975 | " A hectare of Indian wheat farm that produced an average of 0.8 tonnes in 1948, produced 4.7 tonnes of wheat in 1975 from the same land." | |
| 1990–2010 | "Between 1990 and 2010, the Indian fish capture harvest doubled, while aquaculture harvest tripled." | |
| 2000 | "By 2000, Indian farms were adopting wheat varieties capable of yielding 6 tonnes of wheat per hectare."[2][3] | |
| 2008 | " In 2008, India was the world's sixth largest producer of marine and freshwater capture fisheries and the second largest aquaculture farmed fish producer. " | |
| 2014 | "As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as jute, staples such as millets and castor oil seed. India is the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world's major food staples."[4] |
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References
- ↑ Gupta, page 57
- ↑ "Rapid growth of select Asian economies". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2009.
- ↑ "Brief history of wheat improvement in India". Directorate of Wheat Research, ICAR India. 2011.
- ↑ "FAOSTAT, 2014 data". Faostat.fao.org. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
