Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield in India
India: Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield was 23,129 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cantaloupes and other melons — yield in India is 23,129 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.0% on the previous year and up 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cantaloupes and other melons — yield in India peaked at 23,129 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 13,684 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places India 41st out of 105 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,337 kg/ha | 13,684 kg/ha | 15,079 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,634 kg/ha | 14,286 kg/ha | 17,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 19,103 kg/ha | 17,209 kg/ha | 20,339 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 20,631 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha | 21,828 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,338 kg/ha | 20,476 kg/ha | 21,842 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,099 kg/ha | 18,732 kg/ha | 22,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 21,864 kg/ha | 19,707 kg/ha | 23,129 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
- 38 Czechoslovakia 23,973 kg/ha compare
- 39 Niger 23,639 kg/ha compare
- 40 Sudan 23,189 kg/ha compare
- 42 France 22,850 kg/ha compare
- 43 South Sudan 22,441 kg/ha compare
- 44 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 22,206 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture share gdp 16.23 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.23 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 64.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 941.42 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 642.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 37.61 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cantaloupes and other melons — yield in India?
- Cantaloupes and other melons — yield in India was 23,129 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cantaloupes and other melons — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 23,129 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cantaloupes and other melons — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,684 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does India rank for cantaloupes and other melons — yield?
- India ranks 41st out of 105 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cantaloupes and other melons — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.