Question.
How would you distinguish between net sown area and gross cropped area?
(NCERT class 12 geography, India People and Economy, Chapter-5. Land Resources and Agriculture)
Answer.
The difference between the net sown area and the gross sown area is as follows:
The net sown area is the land on which at least one crop is sown and harvested in each agricultural year while the gross sown area adds up to the number of times the crop is sown in an agricultural year.
For example,
if a farmer has 2 hectares of land and has sown 2 crops – one Kharif and one Rabi crop in an agricultural year, on the entire 2 hectares of land, then,
The net sown area will be 2 hectares while the gross sown area will be 2 * 2 (number of crops) = 4 hectares.
As per the land use data for 2016-17, India has 139.4 million hectares of net sown area, while 200.2 million hectares are gross cropped areas. Therefore, the cropping intensity in the year 2016-17 was 143.6%.
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