Govt revises upward horticulture crops output for 2016-17

The government today revised upward the production estimate for horticulture crops to 295.16 million tonnes for 2016-17 crop year ending June, up by 3 per cent from the last year, on good monsoon.
Total acreage under horticulture crops -- fruits, vegetables, flowers, plantation crop and spices -- has also gone up to marginally to 24.92 million hectare this year.
Releasing the second estimate for 2016-17 crop year, the Agriculture Ministry pegged the overall production of horticulture crops at 295.16 million tonnes, up from the initial estimate of 287.32 million tonnes for the same period.
In 2015-16 crop year, the country is estimated to have harvested 286.16 million tonnes of such crops.

Among the horticulture crops, the production vegetables is estimated to jump to 175 million tonnes in 2016-17 from the actual output of 169 million tonnes last year.
The estimated output of tomato and potato has been revised upward from the initial projections. Onion production is pegged at 21.56 million tonnes in 2016-17, as against 20.93 million tonnes last year.

Potato output is expected to be 46.54 million tonnes as against 43.41 million tonnes, while that of tomato at 19.69 million tonnes as against 18.73 million tonnes in the said period, as per the ministry's data.
The output of flowers is pegged at 2.24 million tonnes for 2016 -17 as against 2.18 million tonnes last year, while plantation crops output at 16.86 million tonnes as against 16.6 million tonnes and that of spices at 7.07 million tonnes as compared with 6.98 million tonnes in the said period.

These estimates are based on the information received from different states and union territories, said the ministry in the statement.