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Revision as of 11:56, 1 July 2019
This is a timeline of food and nutrition in India.
Contents
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" | |
| 1940s | "The Grow More Food Campaign (1940s)" | |
| 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." | |
| 1950s | "Integrated Production Programme (1950s) " | |
| 1960s | Green Revolution in India | |
| 1970 | Operation Flood | |
| 1990–2010 | "Between 1990 and 2010, the Indian fish capture harvest doubled, while aquaculture harvest tripled." | |
| 1990s | "Agricultural exports continued to grow at well over 10.1% annually through the 1990s."[2] | |
| 1998 | " It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998,"[3] | |
| 2000 | "By 2000, Indian farms were adopting wheat varieties capable of yielding 6 tonnes of wheat per hectare."[4][5] | |
| 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. " | |
| 2009 | "In 2009, India was the world's third largest producer of eggs, oranges, coconuts, tomatoes, peas and beans."[6] | |
| 2012 | " In 2012, the production from horticulture exceeded grain output for the first time" | |
| 2013 | "The total horticulture produce reached 277.4 million metric tonnes in 2013, making India the second largest producer of horticultural products after China."[7] "During the 2013 fiscal year, India exported horticulture products worth Template:INRconvert, nearly double the value of its 2010 exports.[7] | |
| 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."[8] | |
| 2016 | "Recently (May 2016) the government of India has set up the Farmers Commission to completely evaluate the agriculture programme."[9] |
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References
- ↑ Gupta, page 57
- ↑ Gulati, 15
- ↑ "India largest milk producing nation in 2010-11: NDDB". Hindustan Times. 2011-12-20. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Country Rank in the World, by commodity". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2011.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Deficit rains spare horticulture, record production expected Livemint, S Bera, Hindustan Times (January 19, 2015)
- ↑ "FAOSTAT, 2014 data". Faostat.fao.org. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ↑ "Farmers Commission". Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
