INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rajasthan has around 78 thousand square kilometres of land that is classified as wasteland. That is 23% of the total land in the state. Though it less than half when compared to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, when we consider only the states, it is the maximum. Therefore, this is the correct option.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rajasthan has the largest area of cultivable wasteland in India. 4. Andhra Pradesh has the highest per hectare yield of maize in India.

Detailed explanation-3: -India’s total land area is around 329 million hectares. Of this, the government classifies 90 million hectares as “wasteland”-that is, non-productive land; a definition that militates against the fact that about 40 per cent of our 1.3 billion population depends on this land for livelihood.

Detailed explanation-4: -In states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, more than 70 % of the land is used for grazing.