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What is the intensity of cropping?
What do you mean by intensity of cropping?
What is meant by ‘intensity of cropping’?
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Solution
“Intensity of cropping” refers to the number of crops raised on a field during an agricultural year. The total cropped area as a percentage of the net sown area gives a measure of cropping intensity.
Thus, the intensity of cropping = `" Total cropped area"/"Net sown area"`.
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