Table 9.13.

In the new rotation of crops, the farmers are largely concentrating on the cultivation of High Yielding Varieties of rice and wheat, and depending on the circumstances, they grow a cash crop of sugarcane. All these crops are soil exhaustive. Moreover, the fallowing practice has been abandoned.

Fig. 9.14 Diffusion of High Yielding Varieties of Rice and Wheat

Table 9.13 Rotation of Crops in 2005-06 in Village Banhera (Tanda) Village, District Hardwar

Source: Field work by the author, 2000-06.