presents the percentage of area under commercial crops to TCA across the districts
of Karnataka (Fig. 3).
4.3 Cropping Intensity
Cropping intensity refers to cultivation of more than one crop in the same field
during the same agricultural year. Higher the cropping intensity essentially means
more number of crops cultivated in a year. Normally, districts with more irrigation
water availability have higher cropping intensities. In addition, mechanization of
farmlands has also had considerable effects on increasing cropping intensities.
Dharwad district was observed to have the highest cropping intensity of 164.74 %
followed by Mysore with 162.33 %. Districts like Bellary, Raichur and Koppal
were also found to have good cropping intensities. The government has encouraged
farmers to adopt water conservation methods and has focused on developing irrigation provisioning facilities in these regions thereby leading to increased cropping
intensities in these districts.
4.4 Gross Irrigated Area
Irrigation water availability is essential for climate resilient agricultural production.
In Karnataka, a large portion of area is under rainfed agriculture. Karnataka is one
of the states with less irrigated area in the country, i.e. 32 % of gross irrigated area
to TCA (Ministry of Agriculture, GoI, 2010–11). Among the different districts,
Shimoga has the highest area of about 62 % of its TCA under irrigation and the
Cropping Intensity
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Fig. 3 Cropping intensity (CI) across the districts of Karnataka (based on Directorate of
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of Karnataka (Fig. 3).
4.3 Cropping Intensity
Cropping intensity refers to cultivation of more than one crop in the same field
during the same agricultural year. Higher the cropping intensity essentially means
more number of crops cultivated in a year. Normally, districts with more irrigation
water availability have higher cropping intensities. In addition, mechanization of
farmlands has also had considerable effects on increasing cropping intensities.
Dharwad district was observed to have the highest cropping intensity of 164.74 %
followed by Mysore with 162.33 %. Districts like Bellary, Raichur and Koppal
were also found to have good cropping intensities. The government has encouraged
farmers to adopt water conservation methods and has focused on developing irrigation provisioning facilities in these regions thereby leading to increased cropping
intensities in these districts.
4.4 Gross Irrigated Area
Irrigation water availability is essential for climate resilient agricultural production.
In Karnataka, a large portion of area is under rainfed agriculture. Karnataka is one
of the states with less irrigated area in the country, i.e. 32 % of gross irrigated area
to TCA (Ministry of Agriculture, GoI, 2010–11). Among the different districts,
Shimoga has the highest area of about 62 % of its TCA under irrigation and the
Cropping Intensity
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
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h a r w
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M
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Dist with Low CI
Fig. 3 Cropping intensity (CI) across the districts of Karnataka (based on Directorate of
Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, 2010–11)
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