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Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...
Of the 160 million hectares of cultivated land in India, about 39 million hectare can be irrigated by groundwater wells and an additional 22 million hectares by irrigation canals. [72] In 2010, only about 35% of agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated. [73] About 2/3rd cultivated land in India is dependent on monsoons. [74]
This is a list of countries by irrigated land area based on The World Factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency. [1] The two countries with the largest irrigated land area are India and China, which make up 22.06% and 21.33% of worldwide irrigated land area respectively as of 2020 [update] .
According to 2001/2002 Agriculture census, only 58.13 million hectares of land was actually irrigated in India. [32] The total arable land in India is 160 million hectares (395 million acres). According to the World Bank, only about 35% of total agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated in 2010. [2]
Nationally, as of December 2021, 40,031,308 acres of all private agricultural land in the U.S. had foreign ownership. That was an increase of 2.4 million acres from Dec. 31, 2020, and an increase ...
China's arable land, which represents 10% of the total arable land in the world, supports over 20% of the world's population. [26] Of this approximately 1.4 million square kilometers of arable land, only about 1.2% (116,580 square kilometers) permanently supports crops and 525,800 square kilometers are irrigated.
Investigative journalist Sara Carter said in 2022 that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated China owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. land in 2019, which she added has been augmented since ...
A border, dubbed the “Line of Actual Control,” separates Chinese and Indian-held territories from Ladakh in the west to India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims in its ...