Babarpur Ajitmal

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state_name = Uttar Pradesh
district = Auraiya
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Babarpur Ajitmal is a town and a nagar panchayat in Auraiya district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, [GR|India] Babarpur Ajitmal had a population of 50,550. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Babarpur Ajitmal has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 58% of the males and 42% of females literate. 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Despite being small in geographical and population, town has very good education system, Janata Mahavidyalaya is a famous college in the area around Babarpur Ajitmal.

References

= By ATUL =

Babarpur is a small town which is famous for agriculture.Babarpur is my native place and i lived there a long time.

----Cultivable Land

Forest land, groves, land prepared for sugar-cane furrows, waste-lands like pastures and grazing land often classified as unculturable due to excess of sand or reh or on account of ravine-scouring or overgrowth of dhak constitutes cultivable land in the district. The area of cultivable land in the district in 1996-97 was 151 thousand hectares (Auraiya district included).

Means of Irrigation

In earlier times the town was almost wholly dependent on wells and, to a small extent, on tanks. The well-irrigation appears to have been largely replaced by canals. The chief sources of irrigation are wells, tanks

Wells

Wells and tube-wells constitute an important source of irrigation in the district. Masonry wells which were few in the past have increased in number in the last few years. The character of wells depends largely on the depth at which water is found below the surface. This varies in different parts of the district. In the pachar tract the subsoil is firm and the level of water is near about six meters from the surface. In the ghar, on the other hand, the water level varies from 18 to 24 meters, while in the kurka and in the par it was so great a depth as to preclude practically all possibility of irrigation. The wells employed for irrigation are of three classes, those with masonry cylinders, those that are merely earthen and those that partake of the nature of both, being dug like as earthen well but lined with big curved bricks, generally only fitted together though sometimes set in mortar

PRINCIPAL CROPS

Kharif Crops

The chief Kharif crops are the millets, known as Bajra and Jowar, paddy and maize. These are sown either alone or in combination with Arhar. Bajra is chiefly grown in light and sandy soil.Jowar is generally grown in the stiffer and better soils but like bajra it is usually mixed with arhar, the proportion grown alone being only 5per cent. Both Bajra and Jowar are usually sown in June on unirrigated land,the fields being previously prepared by ploughing. They are reaped in November.Another important Kharif crop is rice. There has been an enormous increase in the extent of rice cultivation during the last hundred years. Several local varieties of rice are grown.Maize is usually sown in the best gauhani dumat soil, close to the village site, where the fields yield two crops a year. During the ensuing month the field is carefully weeded and by the middle of Bhadon the plants usually attain a height of four feet and the ears begin to show. Among the Kharif cereals small pulses known as Moth, Urd and Moong, the small millet Mandua, and Hemp or Sanai were largely grown in the past, but new incentives in the field of agriculture have lowered their popularity and more valuable crops like paddy, maize and sugar-cane are gradually replacing them.

Rabi Crop

Wheat heads the list of Rabi cereals in the district in point of area, which in 1973-74 constituted more than half of the total Rabi sowing. Wheat is grown pure as well as mixed with crops like barley and gram. Wheat when mixed with gram is known as gochani and with barley as gujai. The area under pure wheat has no doubt increased during recent years, but the old practice or sowing mixed crops, a characteristic feature of the town has not disappeared altogether. The wheat crop requires a good soil, and an assured supply of water besides manure. Barley alone or in combination with gram forming the mixed called bejhar to which peas are generally added was the favourite rabi staple in the past, in the area sown with it is due to their replacement with wheat and its combination. Barley flourishes even in soils and in tracts which are not suited to wheat cultivation for lack of irrigation facilities.

Gram is, on the whole, little irrigated and it resists drought well, and for this reason it is acceptable to the inhabitants of the par. It can be grown on inferior soils. It needs only two ploughings and does not usually require manure. The only other Rabi staple which needs mention is peas.

The following statement gives some relevant particulars about the prinicpal Rabi cereals produced in 1998-99

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