Table 2a.

Food availability and storage statistics for India.

Food Availability and Storage
All India production of food grains (cereals and pulses), 2019-20	296.65 million tonnes
2020-21(for Kharif season only)	144.52 million tonnes
All India procurement for cereals (rice, wheat and coarse grains), 2019-20	865.52 lakh tonnes
2020–21	611.15 lakh tonnes
Per capita net availability of food grains (per annum) 2019(P)	(kilograms per year)
•Rice	69.1
•Wheat	65.2
•Pulses	17.5
Per capita net availability of food grains (per day) 2019(P)	(grams per day)
•Rice	189.3
•Wheat	178.6
•Pulses	47.9
Stock of Rice and Wheat (FCI and State Agencies), 2020	512.94 lakh tonnes
Allocation of food grains (Rice and Wheat), 2019-20	659.57 lakh tonnes
2020–21	452.39 lakh tonnes
Offtake of food grains (Rice and Wheat), 2019-20	621.90 lakh tonnes
2020–21	389.21 lakh tonnes
All India Storage capacity (FCI and State Agencies), October 2020	802.70 lakh metric tonnes
All India cold storage capacity (March 2018)	36229675 metric tonnes

P = Provisional; FCI = Food Corporation of India (nodal agency for procurement and storage of food grains), 1 lakh = 100,000; 10 lakh = 1 million.

Sources (GoI MAFW, 2020; NFSA 2020a).