COTTON A MAJOR AGRI-CROP IN INDIA

Cotton, being a major agri-crop in India, has a major impact on overall Indian agriculture sector:

Area under cotton cultivation constitutes almost 9% of the total area under agriculture in India

Cotton crop contributes about 14 16% to the total agri-crop in India

India has the largest area under cotton (9 million hectares) in the world constituting 26% of total world cotton area

India presently produces 4.59 million tonnes (27 million bales of 170 kgs each) which constitutes 18% of the world cotton production

60 million people including 4.5 million farmers in India depend on cotton for their livelihood

Growth of Yield in India

Yield has also grown from around 400 kgs per hectare in 2003-04 to around 500 kgs per hectare estimated in 2006-07. This
represents an increase of over 25%.

At the time of Independence in 1947, India was producing 2.3 million bales of short and medium staple cotton from 4.4 million hectares. Hence
long and extra long staple cotton was imported.

IT
As per the Economic Survey 2011-2012, Software accounts for 41.7% of the total services exports from India. s. As per the
estimates of NASSCOM, Indias
IT and BPO sector (excluding hardware) revenues were US$ 87.6 billion in 2011-12, generating direct employment for nearly
2.8 million persons and indirect employment of around 8.9 million. As a proportion of national GDP, IT and ITeS sector
revenues have grown from 1.2 per cent in 1997-8 to an estimated 7.5 per cent in 2011-12
Software exports in 2011-12 are estimated at US$69 billion compared to US$59 billion in 2010-11. While exports continue to
dominate the IT-ITeS industry and constitute about 78.4 per cent of total industry revenue, the CAGR of the domestic sector
has also been high at 12.8 per cent compared to the 14.2 per cent for exports during the Eleventh Five Year Plan period

The Indian steel sector is contributing to nearly 2% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and employed over 5 lakh
people., Steel Ministry said in the year end review report.

According to the statement, India became the 4th largest producer of crude steel in the world in 2010 as against the 8th
position in 2003 and is expected to become the 2th largest producer of crude steel in the world by 2015. Going by
estimate of Rs.4,000 crore investment per million tonne of additional capacity, intended steel capacity build up in the
country is likely to result in an investment of Rs.8,70,640 crore by 2020.

Crude steel production grew at 8% annually (CAGR) from 46.46 million tonnes in 2005-06 to 69.57 million tonnes in
2010-11.

Production for sale of finished steel stood at 66.01 million tonnes during 2010-11 as against 46.57 million tonnes in
2005-06, an average annual (CAGR) growth of 7%.

Consumption of finished steel has grown at a CAGR of 9.6 % during the last six years.
Export of finished steel during 2010-11 stood at 3.36 million tonnes while imports during 2010-11 stood at 6.54 million
tonnes.