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Indian Subcontinent Regional Analysis

Irrigation Infrastructure and New Technology Can Help Agriculture India has approximately 140 million hectares of net cultivated area (the gross area of 190 million hectares takes into account the fact that at least 50 million hectares are sown twice). Of that amount, about 76.77 million hectares of the net sown area are under rain-fed (un-irrigated) conditions. The state that has the largest amount of un-irrigated land is Maharashtra (14.1 million hectares), followed by Rajasthan (11.1 million hectares), Karnataka (7.01 million hectares), Gujarat (5.9 million hectares) and Andhra Pradesh (5.7 million hectares).On the other end of the spectrum, Punjab and Haryana, the cradle of the Green Revolution in the 1970s, are mostly irrigated, wit...

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