India with numerous agro-climatic zones provides great opportunity to grow a variety of horticulture crops. Horticulture is significant part of total agricultural gross value added (GVA) of the country and is approximately 1/4th of the total gross value of output of crop sector. It consists of fruits, vegetables, root and tuber crops, flowers, ornamental plants, medicinal and aromatic plants, spices, condiments, plantation crops and mushrooms. Horticulture crops follow completely different cropping pattern as compared with food grains crop. It has great potential to growth engine of the agriculture and allied sector but that is only possible if we could know its actual value addition in the economy. Till date, the GVA of horticulture sector is compiled along with food grain crops. Separate estimate of horticulture sector is not available because the information on structure inputs of horticulture sector is not available. The objective of this paper is to estimate the input cost of horticulture crops by combining the estimate of important crops under horticulture, namely vegetables (onion, potato, green peas, tomato, okra, tapioca, brinjal, cabbage, carrot, watermelon and beans), fruits (banana, mango, papaya, jackfruit, guava and grape) and condiment & spices (black pepper, ginger, turmeric, chillies, cardamom, areca nut and tamarind), which may be used to estimate separate GVA of this sub-sector.
Central statistics office, Gross value added, Gross domestic product, System of national accounts, Cost of cultivation studies (CCS), Gross value of output (GVO), Inputs and output (I/O) ratio
