States with highest and lowest estimates of yield of total foodgrains in last four years
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News - States with highest and lowest estimates of yield of total foodgrains in last four years
As per ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare's Annual Report 2017-18 India's total geographical area is 328.7 million hectares. Out of this, reported net sown area is 140.1 million hectares & the gross cropped area is 198.4 million hectares with a cropping intensity of 142 percent (figures as per the land use statistics 2014-15). The net area sown works out to be 43 percent of country's total geographical area.