Agriculture

Agriculture in Dimapur district

The agriculture in the district is TRC, rainfed and traditional. By and large mono cropping is practiced in the district. The TRC paddy alone covers an area of 32,900 ha where as Jhum covers about 7,800 ha. Besides the second important crop in the district is Kharif, Maize covers about 2500ha. Maize is generally grown as a inter crop with Jhum paddy. Winter maize is also grown in certain blocks of the district which covers about 460 ha.

Important Pulses are also grown in the district include pea, lentil, black gram, beans, green gram, arhar, These are grown over an area of 1360 ha, in both Kharif and Rabi season.

With the favourable agro climatic condition, oilseeds such as groundnut, soybean, sesame, sunflower, mustard, linseed, etc. are grown in an area of 5800 ha. Commercially viable crops such as sugarcane, ginger, jute, turmeric, tea, potato etc are also grown in the district covering an area of 1,580 ha. Mechanized farming is encouraged, by providing 50% subsidy on power-tillers.

Sl. No.	Crop	Area (ha)	Production (MT )	Productivity (q/ha)
	Cereals
1.	Jhum paddy	9360.00	14080.00	15.04
2.	TRC paddy	25720.00	41170.00	16.01
3.	Maize	1082.00	1807.00	16.70
4.	Jowar	220.00	200.00	9.09
5.	Small millets	3720.00	2280.00	6.13
6.	Wheat	400.00	280.00	70.00
	Total	50240.00	76080.00

	Pulses
1.	Tur / Arhar	3160.00	3670.00	11.61
2.	Urd/ Moong	330.00	480.00	14.54
3.	Naga Dal	500.00	650.00	13.00
4.	Beans	290.00	330.00	11.38
5.	Kharif Pulses	300.00	380.00	12.67
6.	Pea	1070.00	1310.00	12.24
7.	Lentil	640.00	730.00	11.40
8.	Gram	60.00	90.00	15.00
9.	Other Rabi pulses	1210.00	1390.00	11.49
10.	Black gram	610.00	730.00	11.97
11.	Rajmash	170.00	200.00	11.76
	Total	8340.00	9960.00

	Oilseeds
1.	Groundnut	150.00	140.00	9.33
2.	Soyabean	5130.00	6170.00	12.03
3.	Sesame	850.00	550.00	6.47
4.	Sunflower	690.00	610.00	8.84
5.	Niger	320.00	260.00	8.12
6.	Rapeseed/ Mustard	14400.00	11430.00	7.94
7.	Linseed	2210.00	1650.00	7.47
	Total	23740.00	20810.00

	Commercial crops
1.	Sugarcane	2360.00	135880.00	575.76
2.	Cotton	180.00	30.00	1.66
3.	Jute	1430.00	4840.00	33.84
4.	Potato	640.00	5850.00	91.41
5.	Tea	340.00	1820.00	53.53
6.	Ginger	500.00	4390.00	87.80
7.	Cardamom	280.00	430.00	15.36
	Total	5730.00	153240.00

Source: Statistical handbook of Nagaland 2007

Fig: Production of field crops in Metric tonnes during Kharif and Rabi 2007 – 2008

Source: DAO, Dimapur

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