Share of Major Paddy Producing Countries in 1997

Handbook of Statistics : Section-'C'

Table-3 :

Area, Production, Yield and Percentage Share of Major Paddy Producing Countries
in the World during 1997.

SL	Country	Area ('000 Ha)	Percentage of World
1.	India	42,200	28.2
2.	China	31,348	20.9
3.	Bangladesh	10,177	6.8
4.	Indonesia	11,100	7.4
5.	Thailand	9,932	6.6
6.	Vietnam	7,021	4.7
7.	Myanmar	6,070	4.1
8.	Philippines	3,842	2.6
9.	Pakistan	2,316	1.5
10.	Japan	1,953	1.3
11.	Brazil	3,697	2.5
12.	Egypt	652	0.4
13.	U.S.A	1,228	0.8
14.	Russian Federation	164	0.1
	World Total	1,49,811	100.0

Production ('000 Tonnes)	Percentage of World
1,23,012	21.5
1,98,471	34.6
28,183	4.9
50,632	8.8
21,280	3.7
26,397	4.6
18,900	3.3
11,269	2.0
6,546	1.1
12,531	2.2
9,334	1.6
5,585	1.0
8,115	1.4
328	0.1
5,73,263	100.0

Yield (Kg/Hectare)
2,915
6,331
2,769
4,561
2,143
3,760
3,114
2,933
2,827
6,416
2,525
8,567
6,609
2,000
3,827

Source

:

Agricultural Statistics at a Glance-2000, Directorate of Economics & Statistics,
Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, New Delhi. April-2000.