Agriculture accounts for almost 70% of the district's income whereas 80% of the farmers are small & marginal. However due to protective irrigation system, land reforms and use of high fertile & hybrid crops the district is now not so poor as it was. A vast area of bankura is not cultivable due to undulation of land and morum soil. Still the rest of the land (about 60 - 65%) is fertile and due to availability of sufficient water supplied by either by canal or deep tube wells. Several mini artificial water reservoir ("bandh" or barrages) are also available.

Now a days the district cultivate it requires crops. Net cultivable area of the District is 4.30 lakh ha. and nos. of Cultivator is 4.47 lakhs and per cultivator availability of net shown area comes to 1.02 ha. Due to continuous division and fragmentation of cultivated land Agriculture is becoming less remunerative. About 46% of the net cropped area is under Irrigation . The gross cropped area is about 6 lakh ha. and cropping intensity is 147%. Rice, Wheat, Oil seeds and Vegetables are the Principal Crop occupied major of the gross cropped area. Most of the Pre-Kharif and Kharif rice are grown in rainfed condition . H.Y.V. crops occupied about 9% in this district considering 100% in summer rice. Wheat is second most important cereal crop in the district and crop is cultivated in assured / limited irrigated areas. Among different Oil seeds, Rape & Mustared, and Sesamum are two important oil seeds grown in this district Sesamum is cultivated in 3 seasons while Rape & Mustard is cultivated during Rabi season. It is paradoxical that though Bankura lies in sub-humid zone having total Annual Rainfall of 1300 mm to 1400 mm. Agriculture is largely dependent on the vagaries of monsoon. Drought constitutes a major hazard in the district. Intermittent gaps of in precipitation and moisture stress during the monsoon gives rise to serious set back in production during the Kharif, which is the main stay of Agriculture in the district.Farmers are working hard to get more production of crop with their limited area of land. Seed farms are working jointly. Fertilizers are available at every villages.

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Agricultural infrastructure :

State Seed Farm	1 (Bankura
District Seed Farm	1 (Susunia)
Block Seed farm	5
Model Farm	1 (Joyrambati)
Agricultural  Research Station	2 (Saltora, Joyrambati)
Vegetable Seed Farm	1 (Barjora)
Other Research Farm	3 (Rice-Bankura, Dryland-Sushunia,     Horticulture-Taldangra)
No. of Seed Farms	71
No. of Cold Storages	23

Land Utilization Statistics (Area in Hec) :

Geographical Area	688200
Forest	147293 (21.40%)
Area under Non Agricultural use	130473 (18.96%)
Barren & Uncultivable Land	3302   (0.48%)
Permanent Pasture	501    (0.07%)
Area under Fruit Crops, Misc Tree Crops and others	4995   (0.73%)
Cultivable Waste Land	2337   (0.34%)
Fallow other than current fallow	1386   (0.20%)
Current Fallow	13177  (1.92%)
Net Area sown	348129 (50.59%)
Area in which more than once crop is grown	142318
Gross Cropped Area	490447
Cropping Intensity	141

Area under Principal Crops :                                                                            Consumption of Chemical Fertilizers

Name of the Crop	Area (in Hec)
Aus Paddy	21254
Aman Paddy	311403
Boro Paddy	47625
Wheat	10259
Maize	2702
Kalai	1043
Lentil	1046
Musterd	13314
Potato	42696
Summer Vegetables	8869
Winter Vegetables	13751
Kharif Vegetables	11107

Fertilizer used (in M.T.)
Nitrogen (N)	37947.6
Phosphorous (P)	20463.6
Potash (K)	16088.9
Area of fertilizer use (in Hec)
Net sown area	381402
Doubled cropped area	144355
Gross cropped area	525757
Fertilizer used (in Kg/Hec)	3191