Question

______ district has the largest net sown area in Karnataka.
A. Mysurur
B. Gulbarga
C. Bengaluru
D. None of these

Answer 1

Hint: The district with the largest net sown area value in Karnataka is officially known as Kalaburagi district. Kalaburagi originates from ‘Kalaburgi‘, which means stony land. This district is located in north Karnataka.

Complete answer:
Gulbarga district has the largest net sown area value (8.8%) in Karnataka, followed by the districts Bijapur (8.3%) and Belgaum (8.0%). The lowest net sown area is in Bangalore (0.5%).
A few definitions regarding the land areas as per their uses are listed below.
Total Geographical Area: The magnitude of the entire landmass of the State/Union Territories as provided by the Office of the Surveyor-General of India is called the TGA or Total Geographical Area. Forest area includes all landmass classified as forests under legal enactments. Net Sown Area (NSA) includes the total area where crops are sown.
Gross Cropped Area (GCA) represents the total area in a district/ State/ Union Territory, that is sown once and/or more than once in a particular year.

So, the correct answer is Option B.

Note: Karnataka is a state spread across southern India, which is renowned for producing rice, jowar, ragi, maize, pulses, and oilseeds. In the fiscal year of 2017, from the state’s total land area (approximately 19.18 million hectares), about 9.9 million hectares of land were used for sowing. The largest net sown area is in Gulbarga district, the net sown area is 8.8%. The lowest net sown area is in Bangalore, with a 0.5% net sown area value.