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AGRICULTURAL INPUTS

  Arable land Irrigated land Land under cereal production Fertilizer Consumption Agricultural Machinery
  (hectares per capita) % of crop land ( Thousand hectares ) (hundreds of grams per hectare of arable land) Tractors per 1,000 agricultural workers Tractors per 100 hectares of arable land
YEAR/COUNTRY 1979-81 1996-98 1979-81 1996-98 1979-81 1998-2000 1979-81 1996-98 1979-81 1996-98 1979-81 1996-98
BANGLADESH 0.10 0.06 17.1 44.8 10823 11227 459 1460 0 0 5 7
INDIA 0.24 0.17 22.8 33.6 104349 101190 345 976 2 6 24 91
NEPAL 0.16 0.13 22.5 38.2 2251 3283 98 383 0 0 10 16
PAKISTAN 0.24 0.17 72.7 81.2 10693 12489 525 1178 5 12 50 150
SRI LANKA 0.06 0.05 28.3 32.1 864 890 1800 2517 4 2 141 81

Data Sources : The data are from electronic files that the FAO makes available to the World Bank Data on arable land, irrigated land and land under cereal production are published in the FAO's  Production Year Book
Report :
World Development Indicators : 2001,
The World Bank, Washington, 2001.
 

 
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