A) Over 85 percent of the area under pulses in India is rain fed.
B) The shar e of pulses in the gross cropped area at the national level has doubled in the last two decades.
C) India accounts for about 15 per cent of the total area under rice in the world.
D) Rice occupies about 34 per cent of the gross cropped area of India.
Correct Answer: A
Solution :
[a] Most of the pulses are crops of drier areas and require little or no irrigation. Thus 90 percent of the area under pulse in India is rain fed. However percentage of irrigated area under pulses has increased in the recent past. [b] The total area under pulses has shown almost static trends and has changed from 22.36 million hectares in 1992-93 to 23.47 million hectares in 2012-13. [c] India accounts for over 25% of the total area under rice in the world [d] In the year 2012-13 rice occupied 42.41 million hectares out of the gross cropped area (Net sown area + area sown more than once) of 198.97 million hectares which amounts to 22.16 per cent. Not Available
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