About Agriculture of Ramabai Nagar

Agriculture and Irrigation

      Ramabai Nagar , situated in the middle of Holy Ganga & Yamuna River, is Agriculturally dominating district. About 83% rural population by and large depends on agriculture. This hardly supports their sustenance due to small holdings. The labours are not assured of their livelihood throughout the year. Although agro-climatic conditions are congenial for growing of crops throughout the year but certain pre-requisite facilities are lacking for optimum growth of the crops. The intensity of cropping in the district is around 136.25% as against 200% ideally.

      Kakwan and Sarvan Kheda blocks of the districts are having high crop density, while Rasoolabad, Sandalpur and Derapur are lower in this regard. Main reasons for low cultivation in these blocks are uneven lands and lack of irrigation resources. Derapur, Sandalpur and Akbarpur do well in cash crops in comparison to other blocks. Derapur and Jinjhak rank high in reported net sown areas whereas Kakvan and Maitha block rank low. Block Malasa, Amraudha, Sandalpur and Derapur are counted for developed category of cultivation in comparison to Kakwan and Maitha blocks.

Description of Land utilisation

(in hectares)
S.No. Block Reported/Area Forest Cultivable barren land Present fallow land Sandy and fallow Unculti vable Usable(except for agricu -lture) Agric -ultural land
1. Rasulabad 52328 2449 468 3936 1620 1838 6122 35895
2. Jhinjhjhak 24597 348 223 1112 1510 1805 2558 17041
3. Maitha 39424 73 725 2715 2939 1850 5188 25934
4. Sandalpur 22266 221 325 1568 783 1110 1773 16486
5. Derapur 25421 452 320 1699 1790 1150 2258 17752
6. Akbarpur 27339 365 717 2076 1815 1890 2026 18450
7. SarvanKhera 30011 387 465 905 2364 1685 1338 22867
8. Rajpur 24758 349 566 861 594 2005 2679 17704
9. Malasa 28977 633 443 353 972 1305 1678 23593
10. Amraudha 37128 519 117 1005 1071 2165 1096 31155
  Total 314984 5796 4458 16539 15533 17475 27344 226877


Area Coverage Under Different Crops

      The area under different crops has been shown in the following table as well as in the enclosed graph. The wheat is grown in 30% of the area.

Area Under Crops

(in hectares)
SR Crop Area
1 Wheat 119067
2 Paddy 53749
3 Maize 15757
4 Pulses 46850
5 Oil Seeds 24146
6 Sugar Cane 2730
7 Potato 3206
8 Other Carea 137800
  Total Crops 326098



      The agriculture shows the predominance of subsistence farming. The package of scientific methods of cultivation has been steadily percolating to the farmers and the infrastructure developed by the Government towards improved methods of crop demonstration, training to MITRA KRASHAKS in each Gram Panchayat, development of irrigation facilities and judicious use of vailable irrigation water through sprinkler systems, power storage and its distribution facilities and the dissemination of information through mass media have been changing the nature of cultivation towards being more productive and remunerative. However, poor operational capacity of the farmers and pressure on the land have been obstructing optimum use of improved scientific methods of crop cultivation. There are 268 thousand small tillers and 185 Thousand marginal farmers in the district who normally own a total land of 1.06 lacs hectares under their holdings. The escape for them from vicious poverty lines is either resorting to advance methods of cultivation or shifting to other sector of economy.

Irrigation



      The irrigation facilities in the district are not adequate, particularly Tehsil Bhognipur lacks irrigation facilities. The soil in the district is Loam as usually found in the Doab areas and its slope is same as per river i.e. from North-West to South-East. As per revenue record of 1998-99, the area of Usar land was around 10,000 hectares, out of which 3844 hectare has been treated and put under crops. However the farmers are little reluctant towards soil conservation and to take the benefit of government schemes to remove infertility of the land. The extent of Usar and unfit land for cultivation has reduced from 12.28% in the year 1993 to 7.9%. The area under plantation has gone up by 1.6% in comparison to last year.

      The net area under cultivation in the district (before division) during 1998-99 was 2.28 lac hectares. Out of irrigated area of 1.5 lac hectares, 95,769 hectares is being irrigated through canals which is 61.65% of total irrigated area. The district has 935 good network of canals. The irrigated areas through own and cooperative tube-well is 58,098 hectares. There were as many as 268 tube-wells working in the district by the end of year 1998. There were 583 pump-sets installed for irrigation through canals/pond water. The number of pump-sets installed in the district with tube-wells is 40,489. The major portion of irrigation is done through canals. The district needs augmentation in the irrigation facilities to a great extent by installing pumps & tube wells.

Minor Irrigation


      The Department of minor irrigation has made a ambitious plan towards additional irrigation facilities by way of installing deep tube-wells under different schemes involving financial assistance to marginal farmers. The present position of minor irrigation in the district is as under:

  1. No. of surface pump-sets......................675 nos
  2. No. of diesel pump-sets....................37,549 nos
  3. No. of private Pump-sets (electrical)..2,265 nos
  4. Total command area.....................3,10,424 hectare
  5. Net irrigated area through MI..........1,37,579 hectare


       The department has made a target of installing 400 pump-sets and 60 deep well boring in every year and it is expected that by the year 2010 the department is able to install 4000 ordinary boring and pump-set and 600 deep well boring and pump-sets creating additional irrigated area of 19,200 hectare.

Irrigated Area

Data is very old not updated by user department after several reminders.

Particular Area in Htr
Canal 66255
Tube well 97299
Well 04
Lake/Pond 83
Misc 5

 

Sodic Land Reclamation

      U.P. Bhoomi Sudhar Nigam has taken a project in Ramabai Nagart for the reclamation of Alkaline Land in Ramabai Nagar under their "U.P. Alkaline Land Development Project". It has been reported that the Ramabai Nagar had an Alkaline land to the extent of around 74,000 hectare. The soil is usually under lain by hard indurated kankar pan which is nothing but calcium carbonate and high fluctuating under ground water is one of the major cause of genesis of these soils. Here one thing that the area of sodic soil in Ramabai Nagar measures about 10% of total sodic land in U.P. Climate of this district is subtropical and agroclimatic condition wise categorized in central zone of state.

  1. Average rainfall is 940 mm
  2. Temperature goes maximum 47.8 ° C in summer
  3. Temperature goes minimum 4 ° C in winter.

      Paddy, maize, pulse crops, wheat, potato and sunflower are the main crops grown over here. Some sodic land have been brought under sultication and farmers started growing paddy as single crop, some farmers with their own efforts reclaimed such soil and started growing wheat after paddy but the productivity of these soils are dismally low. These soils have also been undertaken for reclamation as B+ or A class double cropped and B class monocropped area in U.P.A.L.D.P.


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