| About College |
JNKVV is located in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India. The State is situated in the center of India and bounded on all sides by other states. A population of 6,03,85,118 lives in 55393 villages, 259 tehsil and 45 districts spread over 308 thousand square Kilometers geographical area between 21'8� to 26'52�N latitude and 74'2 to 82'0E longitude, which is divided by Tropic of Cancer. The economy of MP is primarily agriculture based and the main food crops are sorghum, wheat, rice and coarse grain such as Kodo millet, little millet and Italian millet. Important among commercial crops are pulses, oilseeds, cotton, sugar cane and medicinal crops. The state is poised for a breakthrough in soybean cultivation. In the state Kharif crops occupy 60% and rabi crops 40% area with 71.4 % area under food grain production. Nearly 59% of landholders are marginal whereas small farmers share 18% of farmland. Low literacy (35.45%), undulating topography, large waste land (13.2%), under developed irrigation potential (23%), low ground water utilization, large proportion of rain fed agriculture (75%), practice of Kharif fallows (3.6%), low cropping intensity (131 %), low fertilizer consumption (50 kg/ha), high proportion of low value crops, and high population of low productive live stock are the major constraints of the state. |
