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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 ...
Worldwide employment In agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2021. India has one of the highest number of people employed in these sectors. As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as ...
Empirical evidence suggests that the increase in agricultural production in India is mostly due to irrigation; close to three-fifths of India's grain harvest comes from irrigated land. The land area under irrigation expanded from 22.6 million hectares in FY 1950 to 59 million hectares in FY 1990.
In 2013–14, only about 36.7% of total agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated, [2] and remaining 2/3 cultivated land in India is dependent on monsoons. [3] 65% of the irrigation in India is from groundwater. [4] Currently [when?] about 51% of the agricultural area cultivating food grains is covered by irrigation. The rest of the ...
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 ]
In 2022, the global agricultural land area was 4.78 billion hectares (ha), down from 4.79 billion hectares in 2021. One-third of the total agricultural land was cropland (1.58 billion ha in 2021), which increased by 6 percent (0.09 billion ha). [10] [11]
Category: Agriculture in India. ... This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total. ... Land management in India (26 P) M.
This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total. ... Agriculture in Punjab, India (4 C, 1 P) R. Agriculture in Rajasthan (5 C, 4 P) S.