Name: Tejpal's Surplus in Palampur
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 7 min 24 s
Description: Farmers who grow crops on their land keep a required portion to feed their families and sell the remaining crops to the market. But what happens next?

Question

The following Table $1$ . $1$ shows the land under cultivation in India in units of million hectares. Plot this on the graph provided. What does the graph show?

Table $1$ . $1$ : Cultivated area over the years

Year	Cultivated Area (in Million Hectares)
$1950 - 51$	$129$
$1990 - 91$	$157$
$2000 - 01$	$156$
$2010 - 11$ (p)	$156$
$2011 - 12$ (P)	$156$
$2012 - 13$ (P)	$155$
$2013 - 14$ (P)	$156$
$2014 - 15$ (P)	$155$

(P) - Provisional Data

Source: Pocket Book of Agriculture Statistics $2017$ , Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers' Welfare.

Accepted Answer

Table $1$ . $1$ : Cultivated area over the years

Year Cultivated Area (in Million Hectares)

$1950 - 51$ $129$

$1990 - 91$ $157$

$2000 - 01$ $156$

$2010 - 11$ (p) $2010 - 11$

$2011 - 12$ (P) $2011 - 12$

$2012 - 13$ (P) $2012 - 13$

$2013 - 14$ (P) $2013 - 14$

$2014 - 15$ (P) $2014 - 15$

(P) - Provisional Data

Source: Pocket Book of Agriculture Statistics $2017$ , Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers' Welfare.

The above graph depicts the land area cultivated in India in units of million hectares. It also shows that the total land area cultivated in India in the years $2017$ was just 120 million hectares which rose to $157$ million hectares in $1990 - 91$ and declined to $155$ million hectares in $2014 - 15$ .

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