Farmers plant rice seedlings in Jharkhand

The cultivated area of the state is about 1.8 million ha, comprising 22% of the geographical area. The net irrigated area is about 0.16 million ha, constituting 9.3% of the cultivated area. Being largely rainfed, the state has a cropping intensity of 126%. For higher agriculture production, major constraints of the state are sloping lands with hard rock areas, severe soil erosion, water scarcity, acidic soils, low soil fertility, low input use of agricultural inputs and open grazing in rabi season. The major crops of the state are maize, rice, wheat and chickpea. The state has 1.4 million ha under rice cultivation, which is mainly rainfed shallow and upland area. The area has slightly decreased from 1.48 to 1.36 million ha during last seven years. The state average productivity is about 1.2 tonnes/ha. The major constraints in production are: drought in uplands, low soil fertility, low coverage of high-yielding varieties and severe incidence of weed and blast. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com To SUBSCRIBE click the below link: www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=WildFilmsIndia Like & Follow Us on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/WildernessFilmsIndiaLimited Website: www.wildfilmsindia.com