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area under government forests. (b) Rabi
Kharif crops are sown in summer
31. TOTAL CULTURABLE AREA includes and harvested in late summer or
cultivated area and culturable early winter. The important
waste. Kharif cr6p_s are cotton, rice,
sugarcane, maize, jowar and
32 IRRIGATED AREA includes the bajra. Rabi crops are sown in
cultivated area actually ir- winter and harvested in late
rigated during the census year winte_r or during early summer.
by artificial means. The important Rabi crops are
wheat, grams, barley, rapeseeds
33. PERENNIAL CANAL IRRIGATED AREA and mustard.
means the area irrigated by
canals flowing round the year. 41. ORCHARD AREA is the farm area
planted with fruit trees. The .
34. NON-PERENNIAL CANAL IRRIGATED important fruit trees are -
AREA means the area irrigated mangoes, citrus, guava, date-
by canals flowing seasonal.ly, palm, grapes, apples, pears,
i.e. for a few months in a plums, apricots and peaches.
year.
42. INTENSITY OF LAND USE repre-
. 35. UNIRRTGATED AREA includes the sents the cultivated area
cultivated area not artifi- • ·measured in terms of total cul-
cially irrigated but depentle.--d. turable area multiplied by 100
solely on rain fall (Barani) or i.e.
river floods and seepage water
(Sailaba) etc., for cultiva- Cultivated Area x 100
tion. Intensity of
Land Use Total Culturable Area
36. TOTAL CROPPED AREA means the
aggregate area of crops raised It indicates the e.xtent to which
in a farm during the census the culturable land was used for
year including the area under production.
fruit trees.
43. INTENSITY OF CROPPING repre~
37. CROP AREA IRRIGATED means area sents the total cropped area in
of a crop actually irrigated by terms of total cultivated area
any artificial means or irriga- ~ultiplied by 100 i.e.
tion irrespective of the number
of times water was applied. Total Cropped Area xl00
Intensity=
38. CROP AREA · COVERED WITH PLANT of Cropping Total Cultivated Area
PROTECTION MEASURES means the
area of a crop on which plant It indicates the extent to which
protection material was sprayed the cultivated area was used for
irrespective of the number of cropping.
sprays made. It does not in-
clude aerial spray. 44. PULSES AREA includes area under
gram, kharif pulses and rabi
39. AREA FERTILIZED means the area pulses.
of a crop treated with chemical
fertilizers irrespective of the 45. FODDER AREA includes -area under
number of times it was fertil- rabi fodder, maize for fodder,
ized. V jowar for fodder, bajra for
fodder and other kharif fod-
40. CROP SEASONS are ders.
(a) Kharif and

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