Basic Statistics
Element | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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Arable land (000 Ha) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 110.00 | 110.00 | 110.00 | 110.00 | 115.00 | 115.00 | 120.00 | 120.00 | 120.00 | 125.00 | 130.00 | 130.00 | 135.00 | 145.00 | 145.00 | 145.00 | 145.00 | 146.00 | 141.00 | 133.00 | 135.00 | 135.00 | 135.00 | 136.00 | 140.00 | 146.00 | 151.00 | 153.00 | 153.00 | 153.00 | 106.00 | 111.00 | 111.00 | 111.00 | 158.00 | 167.00 | 151.30 | 136.30 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.60 | 100.20 | 100.20 | 100.20 | |
Rice area (000 Ha) | 18.50 | 19.00 | 19.50 | 20.00 | 20.50 | 21.00 | 21.50 | 22.00 | 22.50 | 23.00 | 23.50 | 24.00 | 24.50 | 25.00 | 25.50 | 26.00 | 26.50 | 27.00 | 27.50 | 28.30 | 28.00 | 29.00 | 30.00 | 30.61 | 32.00 | 35.00 | 37.00 | 26.03 | 26.00 | 26.30 | 26.17 | 25.62 | 26.04 | 28.00 | 30.00 | 30.39 | 30.49 | 31.23 | 31.81 | 26.00 | 23.00 | 18.71 | 19.63 | 18.85 | 25.28 | 26.41 | 27.52 | 19.36 | 23.72 | 22.82 | 24.31 | 21.15 | 21.29 | 20.36 |
Paddy yield (t/Ha) | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.05 | 2.02 | 2.00 | 2.16 | 1.94 | 1.80 | 1.76 | 1.66 | 1.65 | 2.10 | 2.12 | 2.11 | 2.26 | 1.61 | 1.67 | 1.74 | 1.75 | 1.79 | 1.86 | 1.70 | 1.74 | 2.00 | 2.29 | 2.88 | 2.69 | 2.75 | 2.70 | 4.00 | 2.80 | 3.14 | 3.24 | 3.69 | 3.70 | 3.76 |
Paddy Production (000 t) | 37.00 | 38.00 | 39.00 | 40.00 | 41.00 | 42.00 | 43.00 | 44.00 | 45.00 | 46.00 | 47.00 | 48.00 | 49.00 | 50.00 | 51.00 | 52.00 | 53.00 | 54.00 | 55.00 | 56.60 | 57.40 | 58.50 | 60.00 | 66.00 | 62.00 | 63.00 | 65.00 | 43.14 | 43.00 | 55.16 | 55.49 | 54.10 | 58.95 | 45.00 | 50.00 | 52.89 | 53.22 | 55.90 | 59.28 | 44.30 | 40.00 | 37.39 | 44.90 | 54.32 | 67.98 | 72.51 | 74.43 | 77.39 | 66.39 | 71.64 | 78.73 | 78.01 | 78.73 | 76.62 |
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Rice imports (000 t) | 1.90 | 1.95 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.30 | 2.30 | 2.35 | 2.40 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 2.50 | 7.04 | 7.37 | 7.84 | 10.06 | 10.00 | 18.52 | 16.75 | 11.60 | 9.90 | 19.43 | 23.81 | 19.58 | 22.24 | 26.97 | 24.94 | 28.53 | 29.01 | 9.73 | 38.70 | 33.69 | 9.63 | 17.40 | 30.81 | 19.87 | 24.74 | 13.25 | 7.38 | 52.09 | 54.58 | 52.00 | 54.68 | 47.00 | 7.95 | |
Rice exports (000 t) | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.03 | 3.50 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.37 | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fertilizer usage (NPK) (000 t) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.80 | 0.77 | 0.77 | 0.74 | 1.72 | 1.31 | 0.69 | 0.69 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.68 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.73 | 9.91 | 7.41 | 7.54 | 7.60 | 9.02 | 11.70 | 24.00 | 10.04 | 12.97 | 10.68 | 15.17 |
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Write-up taken from the IRRI's Rice Almanac (2013):
Bhutan, surrounded by India and China high in the Himalayas, is a tiny nation of 38,394 km2 with a 2010 population of 725,940. Apart from snow-covered mountains, there are southern tropical plains and central temperate plains. Only 2% of the land is arable, and half of that is on steep mountainsides. Although the share of agriculture in GDP is gradually decreasing (18.7% of GDP in 2009), agriculture provided livelihood to 65.4% of the population in 2009.
The improved communication facilities in the country during the last 10 years increased the trend from a subsistence basis in agriculture toward cash crops. The number of mechanized farms is increasing as a result of the government’s sizable investments and subsidy on machinery and other inputs.
Source: FAOSTAT database online and AQUASTAT database online, as of November 2012.
