Goa plans to bring 30 per cent fallow land under paddy cultivation in a year.

The Goa’s government plans to bring around 30 per cent of the fallow lands, out of the existing 13,193 hectares across the state, under cultivation by next year. The quantum of fallow land from the current 13,193 hectares to 10,000 hectares would be brought under cultivation within a year. 13,193 hectares of land is fallow, which amounts to 3.6 per cent of Goa’s total area. Fallow land in Goa is equal to its 10.1 per cent area used for food crops, 8.4 per cent of total area sown for other field crops, 31.4 per cent of the gross area under rice, 122 per cent of the area under other cereals, pulses and other oil seed crops, 22.1 per cent of the total area under different cash crops of the state.