AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

Agriculture Population

The area of the District which mostly covers the old disjointed parts of the former State of Dhar presents, in its lower parts, a phenomenon of rising lands from the Narmada valley into rugged and broken hills and valleys with water courses and soil that is too rich. The rest of it is an open and undulating plateau with the soil being black and of high fertility.

Crops

 The principal agriculture seasons are Kharif, the autumn or rain harvest and rabi the spring or cold water harvest. The more important among the crops of the District include, jowar, makka, or maize, bajara, rice( known locally as sal), kodon ( also known as bhadli), tuar, mung and urad, tilli or sesamum and remeli, kapas or cotton and tobacco, all grown in Kharif. while gehun or wheat, chana or gram, jau or barley, masur or lentil. tiwada and batla, alsi or linseed and sarson mustard and sugarcane are all rabi crops.