Low Carbon Footprint Agriculture

Agriculture and allied sector has shown a resilient growth (though undulating) during the last two decades (2005-06 to 2024-25period) with the average annual growth rate of 3.9 per cent. The sector employs 46.1 percent of the workforce and contributed to 18 percent of the country's Gross Value Added in 2024-25. This sector also has the responsibility to feed 1.4 billion populations. India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit, and cotton. Long-term changes in average temperatures, rainfall, and climate variability is a threat to agricultural production, food security, and the livelihoods of farming communities in India. While adaptation of Indian agriculture to climate change is necessary to assure food security and safeguarding livelihoods of poor farmers, mitigation of GHG emissions can abate the extent of climate change and future adaptation needs. This report estimated state-wise agriculture Green House Emissions (GHG) emissions for 2022-23 using Tier 2 methodology of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC 2006) with country specific emission factors. The activity data was obtained from 'cost of cultivation survey', 'fertilizer statistics', 'land-use statistics', 'agriculture statistics at a glance' and the '20th livestock census', published literature and government reports.