Potatoes — Yield in India
India: Potatoes — Yield was 24,568 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for potatoes — yield in India is 24,568 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.7% on the previous year and up 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in India peaked at 25,790 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 6,248 kg/ha, in 1964.
India ranks 59th of 166 countries on this measure, 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 | 7,795 kg/ha | 6,248 kg/ha | 9,011 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,413 kg/ha | 7,888 kg/ha | 12,555 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,149 kg/ha | 12,152 kg/ha | 15,929 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,434 kg/ha | 14,602 kg/ha | 19,391 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,455 kg/ha | 16,410 kg/ha | 19,417 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 22,308 kg/ha | 19,930 kg/ha | 23,954 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,679 kg/ha | 23,677 kg/ha | 25,790 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
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 potatoes — yield in India?
- Potatoes — yield in India was 24,568 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 25,790 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,248 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does India rank for potatoes — yield?
- India ranks 59th out of 166 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.2%. 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 Potatoes — 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.