Question

Answer the following question in about 30 words.

How would you distinguish between net sown area and gross cropped area?

Answer 1

Net Sown Area	Gross Cropped Area
(a) The physical extent of land in which crops are sown and harvested in a year is known as the net sown area. This is the area actually cultivated.	(a) The total area cultivated once, twice, or multiple times in a year is the gross cropped area.
(b) Does not take into account multiple cropping.	(b) Multiple cropping is taken into account.