17-09-2012 08:15 AM | India

Nearly 50% agricultural land in rainfed areas

Nearly half of the net sown land in India falls in unirrigated areas with a majority in important agricultural states like Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka, shows government data.

About 76.77 million hectares of net sown area is cultivated under rainfed (unirrigated) conditions out of around 162 million hectares of such land at present in the country.
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