Arrange the shares of land-use categories in India (2019-20) in descending order.
(A) Area under non-agricultural use
(B) Barren and waste land
(C) Net Area sown
(D) Forests
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (C), (D), (A), (B)
The bar chart of land-use categories gives each category’s share of the reporting area for 1950-51 and 2019-20. The darker bars, for 2019-20, read:
(C) Net Area sown — 45.6 per cent, the largest share.
(D) Forests — 23.4 per cent.
(A) Area under non-agricultural use — 9.1 per cent.
(B) Barren and waste land — 5.4 per cent, the smallest share.
NCERT (2025-26): “Land-use Changes in India … India has undergone major changes within the economy over the past four or five decades, and this has influenced the land-use changes in the country. These changes between 1950–51 and 2019–20 have been shown in Fig. 3.1. There are two points that you need to remember before you derive some meaning from this figure. Firstly, the percentages shown in the figure have been derived with respect to the reporting area. Secondly, since even the reporting area has been relatively constant over the years, a decline in one category usually leads to an increase in some other category.…”
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