The cropping patterns in India can be presented by taking the major crops into consideration as the base crop and all other possible alternative crops. At farmers’ level, potential productivity and monetary benefits act as guiding principles while these decisions with respect to choice of crops and cropping systems narrowed down under influence of several other forces related to infrastructure facilities, socio-economic factors and technological developments, all operating interactively at micro-level.
Recent Developments Provisional Agriculture Census Data Released
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