♤ Economic Factors:

o Price and Income maximization: Price influences the acreage. Inter crop price parity leads to shift in acreage between the crops. Fixed procurement price of wheat and rice has helped in increasing its acreage.

o Farm Size: There is a direct relationship between farm size and cropping pattern. Farmers with small size farm prefer subsistence agriculture. They go for cash crops only after meeting their food requirement.

o Insurance against the risk: The need to minimize risk leads to crop diversification.

o Availability of Inputs: Crop pattern is dependent on inputs like seeds, fertilizer, water, etc. The availability of seeds of groundnut induced farmers in Madhya Pradesh to increase its acreage.

o Tenure: Under the crop sharing system, the landlord has dominant voice in the choice of the cropping pattern and this helps in the adoption of income maximizing crop adjustments.