<P> India is the world's second or third largest producer of several dry fruits, agriculture - based textile raw materials, roots and tuber crops, pulses, farmed fish, eggs, coconut, sugarcane and numerous vegetables . India ranked in the world's five largest producers of over 80% of agricultural produce items, including many cash crops such as coffee and cotton, in 2010 . India is one of the world's five largest producers of livestock and poultry meat, with one of the fastest growth rates, as of 2011 . </P> <P> One report from 2008 claimed India's population is growing faster than its ability to produce rice and wheat . Other recent studies claim India can easily feed its growing population, plus produce wheat and rice for global exports, if it can reduce food staple spoilage, improve its infrastructure and raise its farm productivity to those achieved by other developing countries such as Brazil and China . </P> <P> In fiscal year ending June 2011, with a normal monsoon season, Indian agriculture accomplished an all - time record production of 85.9 million tonnes of wheat, a 6.4% increase from a year earlier . Rice output in India hit a new record at 95.3 million tonnes, a 7% increase from the year earlier . Lentils and many other food staples production also increased year over year . Indian farmers, thus produced about 71 kilograms of wheat and 80 kilograms of rice for every member of Indian population in 2011 . The per capita supply of rice every year in India is now higher than the per capita consumption of rice every year in Japan . </P> <P> India exported $39 billion worth of agricultural products in 2013, making it the seventh largest agricultural exporter worldwide, and the sixth largest net exporter . This represents explosive growth, as in 2004 net export were about $5 billion . India is the fastest growing exporter of agricultural products over a 10 - year period, its $39 billion of net exports is more than double the combined exports of the European Union (EU - 28). It has become one of the world's largest supplier of rice, cotton, sugar and wheat . India exported around 2 million metric tonnes of wheat and 2.1 million metric tonnes of rice in 2011 to Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh and other regions around the world . </P>

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