Editing Geography of India (section)

==== Arable land ====
India's arable land area of 1,597,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> (394.6 million acres) is the second largest in the world, after the United States. Its gross irrigated crop area of 826,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> (215.6 million acres) is the largest in the world, followed by US and China.<ref>{{cite web |title=India outranks US, China with world's highest net cropland area |url=http://www.indiawaterreview.in/Story/Features/india-outranks-us-china-with-worlds-highest-net-cropland-area/2096/2#.W_A_iOgzZPY |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118011104/http://www.indiawaterreview.in/Story/Features/india-outranks-us-china-with-worlds-highest-net-cropland-area/2096/2#.W_A_iOgzZPY |archive-date=18 November 2018 |access-date=17 November 2018}}</ref> Of the 160 million hectares of cultivated land in India, about 39 million hectare can be irrigated by groundwater wells and an additional 22 million hectares by irrigation canals.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/irrigationmap/ind/IND-gmia.pdf Global map of irrigated areas: India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023195405/http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/irrigationmap/ind/IND-gmia.pdf |date=23 October 2020 }} FAO-United Nations and Bonn University, Germany (2013)</ref> In 2010, only about 35% of agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated.<ref name="wbirrig">[http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.IRIG.AG.ZS/countries Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)] The World Bank (2013)</ref> About 2/3rd cultivated land in India is dependent on [[Monsoon of South Asia|monsoons]].<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/special-report/how-to-solve-the-problems-of-indias-rain-dependent-agricultural-land/articleshow/8845170.cms Economic Times: ''How to solve the problems of India's rain-dependent agricultural land'']</ref>