Horticulture, oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton & other crops.

This chapter covers everything grown that is not a cereal or pulse: fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton and fodder. It is the higher-value, more commercial half of Indian crop farming, producing an estimated ₹22.0 lakh crore of GVA in FY26 (7.0% of national GVA, 2.5x the grain economy), split between horticulture (₹12.0 lakh crore) and other crops - oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton (₹10.0 lakh crore). Horticulture has out-produced foodgrains in tonnage since FY13 and is the structural growth story inside agriculture, rising 4.0% a year versus 3.0% for foodgrains, because rising incomes shift diets toward fruit, vegetables and edible oil; the 'other crops' block has grown more slowly and cyclically and has lost share of agriculture GVA. Its weak points are the ones that matter for the trade balance and inflation: India imports 57% of its edible oil, loses 5-15% of horticultural produce after harvest, and prices its sugarcane by decree (the Fair and Remunerative Price). Listed exposure sits only at the processing edge - sugar mills, plantation companies and edible-oil refiners - not in cultivation itself.

Estimated GVA

22.0 ₹ lakh crore · FY26

of which horticulture GVA

12.0 ₹ lakh crore · FY26

of which other crops GVA

10.0 ₹ lakh crore · FY26

Horticulture output

~365 million tonnes · FY25

Sugar output (gross)

31 million tonnes · SS26

Cotton lint output

5.1 million tonnes · FY26

Oilseeds output

42 million tonnes · FY25

Employment

~95 million workers · FY26