Vegetables Primary — Yield in India
India: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 15,946 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
India recorded 15,946 kg/ha for vegetables primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in India peaked at 16,077 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 6,268 kg/ha, in 1962.
India ranks 89th of 191 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.
Vegetables Primary — Yield in India, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,611 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,268 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1963 | 6,684 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1964 | 6,774 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1965 | 6,786 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1966 | 6,969 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1967 | 7,093 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1968 | 7,207 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1969 | 7,296 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1970 | 7,409 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1971 | 7,497 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1972 | 7,546 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1973 | 7,619 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1974 | 7,748 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1975 | 7,745 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1976 | 7,961 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1977 | 8,020 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1978 | 7,948 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1979 | 8,049 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 8,215 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1981 | 8,442 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1982 | 8,546 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1983 | 8,568 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1984 | 8,816 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1985 | 8,832 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1986 | 8,917 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1987 | 8,911 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1988 | 9,636 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1989 | 9,768 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1990 | 10,141 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1991 | 10,195 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1992 | 8,803 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1993 | 11,492 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 1994 | 11,695 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 11,560 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 11,976 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1997 | 11,550 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1998 | 11,479 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1999 | 12,741 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2000 | 13,015 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2001 | 12,918 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 11,853 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2003 | 12,032 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2004 | 12,179 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 12,589 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 13,334 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2007 | 13,914 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2008 | 14,024 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 13,953 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2010 | 14,393 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2011 | 14,731 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 14,788 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 15,002 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 15,142 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 15,428 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2016 | 15,342 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 15,667 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2018 | 15,867 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 15,990 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 16,018 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 15,684 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2022 | 15,831 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2023 | 16,077 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2024 | 15,946 kg/ha | -0.8% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 15,946 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 12,200 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (41 countries reporting)
- India's 15,946 kg/ha is above the median for South Asia, which is 11,773 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — Yield in India changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | +30.6% | 8,803 kg/ha | 11,492 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,854 kg/ha | 6,268 kg/ha | 7,296 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,754 kg/ha | 7,409 kg/ha | 8,049 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,865 kg/ha | 8,215 kg/ha | 9,768 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,163 kg/ha | 8,803 kg/ha | 12,741 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,981 kg/ha | 11,853 kg/ha | 14,024 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,235 kg/ha | 14,393 kg/ha | 15,990 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,911 kg/ha | 15,684 kg/ha | 16,077 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in India?
- Vegetables primary — yield in India was 15,946 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 16,077 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,268 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does India rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- India ranks 89th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.3%. 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 Vegetables Primary — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
About this data
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.