What are Cropping Patterns?
A cropping pattern changes through time and space and is the proportion of land under diverse crops at any given moment. It is, in other words, the annual sequence and geographic organization of sowing and following in a certain location. Cropping patterns in India depend upon rainfall, climate, temperature, soil type, and technology.
The most essential factor in shaping the country’s cropping pattern is an economic motive. Among the different economic elements influencing cropping patterns, irrigation, power, landholding size, crop sale price, farmer income, insurance, and investment are crucial in determining an area’s cropping pattern.
Government legislative and administrative measures may have an impact on cropping patterns. Food Crops Acts, Land Use Acts, intensive paddy schemes, cotton, and oilseed schemes, and subsidies all have an impact on cropping patterns. The government can support or prohibit specific crops for a variety of reasons such as drought, flood, inflation, and so on.
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Cropping Patterns
A cropping system is the type and sequence of crops farmed, and the procedures employed to grow them. It includes all cropping sequences done over space and time based on crop production technology available. Cropping technologies have typically been designed to maximize crop yields.