AGRICULTURE Agriculture is the mainstay of the State's economy and 74.73 per cent of the people are rural. As much as 49 per cent of the land area is cultivable.
Net
sown Area
20.42
m.ha.
Food
grainproduction
15.48
m.m.t.
Rice
production
1.68m.m.t.
Wheat
production
8.37
m.m.t.
Jwar
0.55m.m.t.,
Pulses
3.29
m.m.t.
Jaggery(in form of sugarcane)
0.20
m.m.t.
Cotton
bales in number
0.46
m.
Oilseeds
production
5.46
m.m.t.
Soyabean
4.43
m.m.t.
Industry and Minerals Madhya Pradesh is one of the leading states in the country in mineral production. In the year 1999-2000, the output of major minerals was :