A time series statistics by ‘Indiastat.com’ from 1949 to 2010 shows, that India over a period of
time has grown in the total agriculture land and the production of rice. The statistics shows the
continuous growth for area, production and the yield of rice, however in recent years it has shown
a little bit of decline, which should be considered seriously and the necessary measures must be
taken to keep it again on the growing track. But over the period of time it has shown a growing
trend which we can interpret that India has grown in terms of rice producing land from 30.5
million hectare and 23.5 million tonnes of rice production with an yield of 771kg per hectare in
1949-50 to 41.92 million hectare agriculture land for rice, 89.09 million tonnes of produced rice
and 2125 kg per hectare yield in the year 2009-10.