date:Jan 06, 2016
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Yet, despite the decline in crop area, mango productivity rose in 2014-15 to 8.49 million tonnes per hectare against 7.33 million tonnes a hectare in the previous year, said the Minister.
The sharpest decline in mango crop area was in Maharashtra, which fell from 4.85 lh in 2013-14 to 1.56 lh in 2014-15, with production falling to 8.76 lt in 2014-15 compared with 12.12 lt in the previous year. However, in Maharashtra, too, despite a sharp decrease in crop area, mango productivity rose