HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. This leaves only 37% for forests; 11% as shrubs and grasslands; 1% as freshwater coverage; and the remaining 1% – a much smaller share than many suspect – is built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Only about three percent of the Earth’s surface is capable of growing food. Over the past century, farming technology has made it possible to produce more food from the world’s limited cropland to feed the growing world population.

Detailed explanation-3: -Almost 37 percent of land area of the world is used for agriculture and almost 60 percent of India’s land is under agriculture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Twelve percent of global cropland are used for growing two or three crops in a sequence.