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Nearly half of the net sown land in country falls in rainfed areas

18 Sep 2012 Evaluate

As per the government data nearly half of the net sown land in the country falls in unirrigated areas with a majority falling in important agricultural states like Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. At present out of around 162 million hectares of rainfed (unirrigated) land in the country about 76.77 million hectares of net sown area is cultivated under rainfed (unirrigated) conditions.

As per the state-wise chart Maharashtra tops the list with largest amount of unirrigated land under agriculture at 14.1 million hectares which is followed by Rajasthan with 11.1 million hectares while Karnataka, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh follows the list with unirrigated land under agriculture at 7.01 million hectares, 5.9 million hectares and 5.7 million hectares respectively.

The cradle of Green Revolution of 70s, Punjab and Haryana, have vast majority of areas under irrigation. In Punjab state around 97.6% of the areas are covered by irrigation under different crops while in Haryana, 85.3% of areas under principal crops are in irrigated areas. Bihar is following fast as it has provided irrigation facilities in 61% of area under agriculture in the state. Other than this Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are other states where substantial portion of agriculture land is covered under irrigation which stands at around 58.3% and 56.2% respectively.

The government is running different schemes like National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA), Soil Conservation in the Catchments of River Valley project and Flood Prone River (RVP&FPR) and Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) after taking into account the fact that a vast tract of land is rainfed.

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