In Tamil Nadu, there was a negative increase in agriculture and related work by 2024-25. This is the first time in the last eight years of negative growth in agriculture. With this new information, agricultural experts are worried. Even last year, there was no significant increase in this page and the growth rate was recorded at a rate of -0.09 percent. This information has been obtained on the status of agriculture in the state on behalf of the data published to evaluate the economic activities for Tamil Nadu.
What does the data say
These figures were published two months ago on the website of the Trade Union Statistics and Program Activities Ministry. In 2015-16, the growth rate of agriculture in the state was 2.6 percent. At the same time, it was -1.612 percent in 2016-17. Similarly, in 2017-18, a historical growth reached 12.07 percent. 6.5 % in 2018-19, 7.6 per cent in 2019-20, 4.5 per cent in 2020-21, 5.6 per cent in 2021-22, 2.5 per cent in 2022-23 and 3.9 per cent in 2023-24.
The problem of natural disaster
According to a report on the newspaper Hindu, the previous opportunity for a negative increase in agriculture and its associated works during the 2016-17 period. At that time the government registered Minus 1.61 percent. At the time, the decline was severely affected by the Tamil Nadu drought and the Varada hurricane in December 2016. The state agriculture department’s documents say that there are natural events such as ‘heavy rainfall’ in January 2025-26, 2025-26, the southwest monsoon season (June-September 2024), during the northeastern pollution (northeastern pollution.
50 percent
Due to these natural disasters, the crop has suffered a huge loss of 9.10 lakh acres. The state government has allowed Rs 545.56 crore to provide input subsidy to 6.16 lakh farmers. Agriculture and its associated activities include crops, livestock, forestry and fishing and registration with the Aqualgar. Investigations in their data show that last year’s crops have a significant decline in crops, of which a growth rate of 5.93 percent. Because of this, data of total growth is affected. The contribution of crops is on average 40 percent and more than 50 percent of cattle. Last year, crop crop was 39 percent. The growth rate for crops was 9.5 percent in 2021-22. After that, it was 3.3 percent of the next year and 4.2 percent in 2023-24.
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