Crops

The main crops grown in the dry farming areas are coarse, grains (maize, millets, bajra), wheat, barley, pulses, groundnut, oilseeds and fodder. Though 75 per cent of the total population of dry-farming regions are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture, their per capita income, and standard of living are significantly low.

The cropping patterns and their combinations in the dry-farming regions of India have been given in Fig. 9.24.