Agriculture Statistics is of prime importance as far as the Agriculture Industry is concerned. Agriculture Statistics ascertain the crop production, crop yield, qualities of the crops produced.
Agriculture Statistics also furnish information about the different operations and the different methods which can be adopted for improving the crop output.
In some countries, Agriculture Industry makes up the major segment of economy. The entire population of that country in some way or the other depends on Agriculture.
Agriculture Statistics in such countries also provide information about the employment it provides to the innumerable individuals.
Agriculture statistics in the countries dominated by agriculture imply that Agriculture industry contributes approximately 24% of the GDP or Gross Domestic Products.
Agriculture statistics help us to compare the different yields of crops, quality check of crops compared to the quality of crops produced in other parts.
Agriculture statistics furnishes a rough outline of the incidence of various operations with regard to the Agriculture industry.
According to the Census of agriculture 2002, the following rankings of the market values of products related to agriculture were provided.
The
Census of agriculture, 2002, indicated the following;
The sale of the following agricultural products namely,
- Oilseeds,grain,oats,cash grains,grains dry beans,dry peas,soybeans,corn,oils,seeds,sorghum silage,wheat,sunflower seed, canola ,rapeseed flax,seed,mustard seed,safflower seed,greenhouse, floriculture products ,Nursery products ,mushrooms,foliage plants,flower seeds,shrubbery,nursery stock,tobacco transplants,hay, prelisted crop, ginseng root,peanuts,sugarcane,green,chop, sugarbeet,maple syrup,mint etc., sold for as much as
$4,256,959(sales $1000). Agriculture statistics survey was conducted on as many as 58,105 farms.
Agriculture statistics also indicate that the percentage of sale was 100%.
In other words, Agriculture statistics gives us an overview of the performance of the agriculture industry in different years. It gives a comparison account of the various agricultural products in different years.