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MONUMENTS IN SIKKIM
Sikkim is a hilly State in the Eastern Himalayas where agricultural practices and adaptations are
highly variable in time and space due to varying altitudes and agro-climatic situations. Agriculture
is the primary activity of the people of Sikkim. About 15.36% of the total geographical area of the
land is devoted to agriculture but the actual area available for agricultural purpose is declining due
to diversion of cultivable land for non-agricultural purposes like establishment of industries,
township expansion, construction of roads etc . Farming has been considerably handicapped by
small and fragmented holdings, limited irrigation and frequent occurrence of natural calamities like
landslides, floods and earthquakes. In view of these facts, emphasis is being given to intensive and
judicious use of limited land so that the per capita land productivity and overall production is
maintained at a desired level.
CROPPING PATTERN IN SIKKIM
• Sikkim
S.NO District
literacy rateName
– Population Literates Literacy
BY-
TANISHKA AGARWAL
PARTH JAIN
ARIHANT BHANDARI
KANISHKA BENGANI
SAHIRA CHOUDHARY
AREA , PRODUCTIVITY , PRODUCTION OF
DIFFERENT CROPS IN SIKKIM
• MAJOR CROPS PRODUCED IN SIKKIM ARE –
• RICE
• MAIZE
• BUCK WHEAT
• WHEAT
• FINGER MILLET
• BARLEY
RICE
Rice is one among the oldest cultivated crop as evident from Vedic literatures and
Archeological excavation. It is being cultivated in India and China since thousands of
years. About 90 % of world’s area under rice is in Asia and about 90 % of world’s rice is
produced and consumed in Asia. Globally rice is grown in more than 150m ha area. India
and Chine together hold about half the world’s rice area and more than 60 % people are
rice eaters. Rice is the main staple food and the first cultivated crop in Asia long before
the era of which we have the historical evidences (Parthasarathi, 1960 and Ghosh et al.,
1960). No one really knows exactly where first seeds of rice originated.
AREA- 12.81
PRODUCTIVITY-1674.58 PRODUCTION-21.27
LAND USE PATTERN IN SIKKIM
MOD. DENSE
FOREST
OPEN FOREST
SCRUB
NON FOREST
FOREST