Net sown area definition

Net sown area means net farm land area where the cultivation is done once or more times in a year. ‘Total cropped area’ is the sum of cropped/ harvested area in a year in the net sown area. ‘Cultivable waste land’ is the land cultivated once, but not cultivated for five years or more. ‘Fallow land’ is the cultivated land, but temporarily not cultivated for a period of less than a year.