DRYLAND AGRICULTURE IN ARID RAJASTHAN IN NORTH-WESTERN INDIA
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Author(s):
DR. YASHPAL
Vol - 5, Issue- 12 ,
Page(s) : 374 - 396
(2014 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
The western Rajasthan dryland regions is utmost water deficiency area of the country where there are no perennial sources, rainfall is scanty and erratic and ground water potential is low. For meeting food requirements of growing population, use of ground water resources has reached to critical devastating level and it is feared that agriculture practices may not be abandoned completely, if present level of ground water exploitation continues. Present trend of land use pattern reveals that only 2.12 area has remained as forest land and condition of these regions is miserable due to large scale deforestation and clearance of vegetated land for meeting cultivation requirements. 4.59 percent area is not available for cultivation, 4.80 percent area is barren land, 3.91 percent area is used under permanent pastures and tree groves, 18.81 percent area is wasteland, 38.35 percent area is fallow land and only 27.42 percent area is put under cultivation. The cultivated land is also not uniformly distributed among 12 dryland districts varying from 2.03 percent in Jaisalmer to 69.88 percent in Hanumangarh.
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