@Nilgiri
China's vegetable production a year is 797.8 million tons. You can refer to the picture below, which obtained from the website of NBS (National Bureau of Statistics). The unit is in 10,000 ton
http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/sjjd/201706/t20170622_1506090.html
If we ignore the impacts from exports/imports, that means China's vegetable consumption per capita is about
1.7kg per day, which is aligned with the figure we read from the first page.
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The following tables comes from China Statistical Yearbook, which shows the agricultural products production in China. The figures are given in 10,000 ton, or 10,000 units.
For example, the 2nd table shows China's 2015 fruit production is 273.75 million tons. Again ignore the impacts from exports/imports, that means
China's fruit consumption per capita is about 570 gram per day.
@Nilgiri
mind to share us the similar data of India? Thanks!
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What the Indian govt records is around 300 million tons of production of "conventional" fruit and veg I think in 2016.
This does not include much of the seasonal rural production which is not even really estimated (for just one example I remember a special kind of small pickling mango in my home city that only really gets harvested by tribal mountain people one time in year and they sell directly rather than use markets). If India expands its record keeping I am sure it can get much higher volumes, but the point is only those that sustain the population visibly (and across the country largely uniformly in demand) in largely urban market places (or rural warehouse markets) "formally" are recorded (and also used in inflation calculations etc). It is why it is better to survey on consumption end especially for the poorer people...and honestly Indian surveying on that I have to look into given main ones I know are largely raw calorie focused rather than composition focused.
Improvement of this (methodology) is actually why World Bank dropped the Indian absolute poverty level from above 20% to somewhere around 12% for the year 2011/12....by changing from URP to MMRP:
http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/meaning-urp-mrp-mmrp/
Another issue when we talk about FAO conventional supply metric is also a lot of production/raw supply may not be directly consumed by people (take soybeans for example which is mostly animal feed in many countries, same with corn and many other cereal and "veg" crop). This links into the food energy pyramid (i.e resources of meat per land compared to legume/cereal per land) so again the consumption per capita survey is only really the credible way to take into account how the realised inefficiencies etc manifest at ground level by what humans can physically consume.
This is why the earlier pictures posted are ridiculous (and NDTV I would not really expect much better depending on whatever political slant they have latched onto for whatever discussion). 400g of daily protein supply per chinese is not what they physically actually consume...because over 100g per person (in a day for an adult) is already running into territory of protein oversupply per capita. Rather much is animal feed or simply unprocessed/inaccesible/unfeasible protein depending on what is being aggregated supply-wise.
From the food security index the actual consumption per capita of quality protein per capita is recorded at:
India = 39 grams (65% of raw supply)
China = 69 grams (18% of raw supply)
World average = 58 grams
Sri Lanka (with higher HDI than China and same region/weather/overall consumption cultural patterns as India) = 37 grams (just for reference)
http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Country/Details#China
http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Country/Details#India
This is largely given the pretty wide discrepancy between the two in animal feed/meat animal rearing.
As seen from the Sri Lankan case (and its HDI but also problems in number of hunger index cherry-picked components) there is also more to it (malnutrition) than straight up raw production supply of conventional "vegetables/fruits/cereals/protein"...but more to do with actual on ground per capita consumption, poverty intensity and probably more than 2/3rds to do with (as a number of studies in India have shown by comparing widely varying states) to sanitation/primary health care/education (esp of children and mothers). The issue of raw food availability (even in remote areas) is largely a solved one in South Asia in general, esp compared to the focused healthcare and sanitation for those most vulnerable who can definitely be numbered in the 33% - 66% bulk prevalence of the total population....job is about half done among them (and it is splotchy and varied), but there is a drive in many of the countries to now get the last half done among them. In India I can specifically speak that because of the migration from poor states to rich states....those migrants increasingly see how the common rural people of the richer states are faring and what is provided to them as basics...and they are pushing for the same back home for their families and asking questions. This is why many issues are no longer being put to the backburner and are being addressed head on (like the total sanitation campaign that is ongoing).
