Answer in Detail

Tabulate the crops grown in Tamil Nadu.

The types of cultivated crops can be classified as food crops and non food crops. As per the data for year 2014-15, 59% of food crops and 50% of non-food crops are grown in Tamil Nadu. The crops grown in Tamil Nadu are tabulated below as per data collected in 2014-15:

• 30% of the cultivated land is devoted to paddy

• 12% to other food crops

• A very small % of land is used to grow millets

• Sorghum/Cholam occupies 7% of the land

• Cumbu is grown on 1% of land

• Ragi in 1.5% of land

• Other millets occupy 6% of the land

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