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This article includes the table with land use statistics by country. Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops. Arable land is defined as being cultivated for crops like wheat, maize, and rice, all of which are
India's arable land area of 1,597,000 km 2 (394.6 million acres) is the second largest in the world, after the United States. Its gross irrigated crop area of 826,000 km 2 (215.6 million acres) is the largest in the world, followed by US and China. [ 71 ]
Thus, a wife may make gifts and use the family wealth on her own when her husband is away (A 2.12.16–20). Women are upholders of traditional lore, and Āpastamba tells his audience that they should learn some customs from women (A 2.15.9; 2.29.11). Statue of Dancing Celestial deity (Devada) in Uttar Pradesh, India
Land use and land management practices have a major impact on natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. [6] [7] Land use change is "the change from one land-use category to another".
Women turnout during India's 2014 parliamentary general elections was 65.63%, compared to 67.09% turnout for men. [113] In 16 states of India, more women voted than men. A total of 260.6 million women exercised their right to vote in April–May 2014 elections for India's parliament. [113]
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), also referred to as Forestry and other land use (FOLU) or Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), [3] [4]: 65 is defined as a "greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use such as settlements and ...
Panchayats cover about 96% of India's more than 5.8 lakh (580,000) villages and nearly 99.6% of the rural population. As of 2020, there were about 3 million elected representatives at all levels of the panchayat, nearly 1.3 million are women.
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and the most populous country.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and ...