🔆 Fertilisers in Indian Agriculture

✅ India’s position:
• 3rd largest producer
• 2nd largest consumer (after China)
📊 FAO

✅ Fertiliser subsidy:
• 0.5% of GDP (2nd after food subsidy)
• ₹1.75 lakh crore
• Only 35% reaches intended beneficiaries
📊 NITI Aayog

✅ Urea dominates sector:
• 85% produced, 75% consumed, 50% imported
📊 Economic Survey

✅ NPK Ratio:
• Ideal = 4:2:1
• 2023–24 actual = 10.9:4.4:1
📊 Fertiliser Association of India

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🔆 Food Processing Industry – Key Stats (MoFPI)

📍 Sector Performance
✅ The Indian FP sector has performed well with an impressive average annual growth rate of 7.3% from 2015 to 2022

📍 Gross Value Addition (GVA)
✅ GVA in FP sector has increased from 1.30 lakh crore in 2013-14 to 2.08 lakh crore in 2021-22

📍 Sector Contribution
✅ FP sector accounted for 10.54% of Manufacturing GVA and 1.57% of Agriculture GVA in 2020-21

📍 Employment Impact
✅ FP sector employs around 1.93 million people, accounting for 2.38% of employment in the registered factory sector

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📘 Land, Forest, and Water Data – Snapshot

✅ 1 million sq km of land is getting degraded each year, with an estimated 15 million sq km already impacted (more than the entire continent of Antarctica) by land degradation
🔹 UNCCD – Land Degradation

✅ 27.77% of the total land area is degraded
🔹 SDG India Index 2024 – Land Degradation

✅ 46% global land area classified as drylands, home to a third of humanity
🔹 UNCCD Report – Drylands

✅ Forest Cover in India = 25% of geographical area (81 million hectares)
🔹 ISFR 2021 – Forest Cover

✅ There has been a net increase of 58,891 sq km in forest cover and 14,277 sq km in tree cover in the last two decades (2001 to 2021)
🔹 ISFR 2021

✅ Area under mangroves = 4992 sq km
🔹 ISFR 2021 – Mangroves

✅ 1.3 million hectares area covered under afforestation schemes
🔹 SDG India Index 2024 – Afforestation

✅ Remaining global forest cover is 60% — well below the safe boundary of 75%
🔹 UNCCD report – Forest Cover

✅ 20% of Earth’s land surface covered by the savanna is now under threat from cropland expansion and poorly planned afforestation
🔹 UNCCD report – Grasslands

✅ 47% aquifers of the world are being depleted faster than they are replenished
🔹 UNCCD Report – Water

✅ More than 50% of world’s major rivers disrupted by dam construction
🔹 UNCCD Report – Water, Rivers, Dam

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🔆 Horticulture in India

✅ Contribution to Agri GDP:
Horticulture contributes 35% to agri GDP, employs 20% of agriculture labour force
📊 Source: National Horticulture Board

✅ Production Composition:
Fruits & vegetables = 90% of total horticulture production
📊 Source: National Horticulture Board

✅ Total Production (2022–23):
350 million tonnes – horticulture output has outpaced grain crops since 2013
📊 Source: Ministry of Agriculture

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