District Profile

Major farming systems/enterprises (based on the analysis made by the KVK)

S.N. Farming System/Enterprise
1 Crop Production System
2 Crop production and livestock production system
3 Fruits / Vegetable /Floriculture /farming
4 Fisheries, Poultry, Mushroom production and Goatray

Description of Agro-climatic Zone & major agro ecological situations (Based on soil and topography)

S.N. Agro-climatic Zone Characteristics
1 Mid Western plain zone Alluvial, Calcareous , Clay , Saline Alkaline Annual rainfall 807 mm
S.N. Agro-climatic Zone Characteristics
1 AES-1
(Powayan Tehsil )
Block
  1. Sindhauli
  2. Powayan
  3. Banda
  4. Khutar
  1. Productive plain land under canal and tubewelll irrigation
  2. Main cropping system rice wheat sugar cane & potato.
  3. Soil type – Loam ,Clay loam , Sandy loam,
2 AES-2
(Sadar and Tilhar Tehsil )
Block
  1. Bhawalkherav
  2. Dadraul
  3. Negohi
  4. Khudaganj
  5. Tilhar
  1. Plain and water logged under canal and tubewell irrigation
  2. Major crops grown i.e. Rice, Wheat, S.Cane.Toria, Potato, Lentil, Urd & Til
  3. Soil type loam,clay loam.
3 AES-3
(Jalalabad Tehsil )
Block
  1. Jalalabad
  2. Kanth
  3. Madnapur
  4. Kalan
  5. Mirjapur
  6. Jaitipur
  1. Rainfed and tubewell irrigated cultivable land
  2. Major crop – Jowar , Bajra , Til , Ground Nut, maize, Mustard , Lentile ,Urd , Wheat ,S.Cane , Paddy.
  3. Soil type – Sandy /sandy loam

Soil Types

S.N. Soil Types Characteristics Area in ha
1 Sandy soil About 50% sand in this soil mostly rain fed farming 157677
2 Loam / Clay loam Irrigated land & all crop grown 208899
3 Loam In this soil paddy wheat and other oil seed and pulses crops are grown 60818

Area, Production and Productivity of major crops cultivated in the district-2009-10

S.N. Crop Area (ha) Production (Qt.) Productivity (Qt. /ha)
1 Rice 204915 459829000 22.44
2 Maize 297 5610000 18.87
3 Jowar 1553 1592000 10.25
4 Bajra 4666 5291000 10.25
5 Pulses (Kharif) 8483 5455000
6 Ground Nut 6101 6278000 10.29
7 Seasmum (Til) 4765 548000 1.15
8 Soybean 56 55000 9.76
9 Wheat 247112 864892000 35.00
10 Barley 574 1169000 20.36
11 Gram 543 483000 8.89
12 Pea 1600 1872000 11.70
13 Lentil 5412 3969000 7.33
14 Linseed 289 119000 4.13
15 Mustard 7677 7351000 9.58
16 Toria 12000 9608000 8.00

Production and productivity of livestock, Poultry, Fisheries etc. in the district

Category Population Production Productivity
Cattle
Crossbreed / Indigenous 772260
Buffalo 121582
Sheep+Goats 432958
Pigs 34021
Rabbits 787
Poultry
Hens
Desi
Horse 16691
Dog 107283
Fish 1910.285 5865.56 370.00
Marine
Inland
Prawn
Scampi
Shrimp

Details of Operational Area / Villages

Taluk Name of the Block Name of the Village Major Crops & Enterprises Major Problem Identified Identified Thrust Areas
Sadar Bhawalkhera,Madnapur,kant,Dadraul Badavan, Daudpur,Niyamtpur, Painabujurg,Tikri,Madnapur, Chndokha, Khai khera, Mathana, Satwankhurd, Roshannagar, Guwari , Rampur Barkatpur ,Basak , Kakrakalan , Rice , Wheat , Sugarcane ,Ground nut, Potato, Urd ,Lentil , Toria , Mustard / Mushroom production ,Vermi-compost , Seed production , Animal husbandry, Vegetable production ,Soil and water conservation, preservation of fruits and vegetable
  1. Non use of HYV seeds
  2. Non use of balance fertilizers
  3. Non use of PP measures
  4. Non use of sulphur and boron in oilseed crop
  1. Need to enhance productivity
  2. Need to promote INM and IPM
  3. Need to adopt organic farming
  4. To promote agro based activities like Mushroom cultivation and value addition
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