1st Five Year Plan
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Introduction || APPENDIX (CH-4) || APPENDIX (CH-9) || ANNEXURE (CH-12) || APPENDIX (CH-14) || APPENDIX (CH-24) || APPENDIX (CH-29) || Conclusion
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APPENDIX (Chapter - 9)

Crop Pattern (Indian Union)

Crops Million acres Percentage of the total cropped area
group I (food crops)
1. Cereals 193.04 60.88
2. Gram 18.71 5.90
3. Pulses 28.47 8.98
4- Fruits and Vegetables (a) 5.00 1.58
5. Other food corps (a) 1.65 0.52
total 246.87 77.86
group II (commercial crops)
6. Major oilseeds 26.68 8.41
7- Other oilseeds (a) 4.27 1.35
8. Cotton 14.56 4.59
9. Jute 1.45 0.46
10. Other fibres (a) 1.05 0.33
ii. Sugarcane 4.21 1.33
12. Tobacco 0.90 0.28
total 53.12 16.75
group III (plantations, condiments and spices)
13 Plantation crops (tea, coffee and rubber) . 1.19 0.37
14 Conditments and Spices (a) 2.46 0.78
total 3.65 1.15
group IV (other crops)
15 Fodder (a) 11.17 3.52
16 Other crops (a) 2.27 0.72
total 13.44 4.24
total cropped area 317.08* 100.00

Source : Estimates of area and production for 1950-51 in case of all crops except those marked (a). The latter relate to 1949-50 and the source is Land Utilisation Statistics.
*While the estimates for cereals and gram cover reporting as well as non-reporting areas, those for other crops relate to reporting areas only. The total cropped area may, therefore, be somewhat larger.
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