The total cropped area in 1905-06 was nearly 1420,000 acres or the maximum recorded. At settlement the cropped area was 1,260,000 acres and the increase has been  153,000 acres or 12per cent . in 14 years. As has been shown the increase has been obtained both by expansion of the occupied area and contraction of fallows. At the 30 years’ settlement the cropped area was 1,150,000 acres and the increase up to last settlement was114,000 acres or 10 per cent. As against 153,000 acres in the 14 years since settlement. Nagpur has the eighth largest cropped area in the combined Provinces, being exceeded by the three Chhattisgarh Districts and all the Berar Districts.

In 1905-06, double crops were grown on 6000 acres and the net cropped area was 1,411,000 acres. After-crops are grown principally in the rice tracts, the pulses urad and lakhori being sown in the damp fields. Late rain is necessary for second crops; the maximum area cropped twice was 17.000 acres in 1897-98 when the late rains were heavy and the minimum 2000 acres in the famine year of 1899-19000.

At settlement the spring and autumn harvests were of nearly equal importance, the former occupying 49 and the latter 51 per cent. Of the cropped area. Since the settlement the greatly increased production of cotton has largely altered the proportion of the harvest and in 1905-06 autumn crops occupied nearly 1,050,000 acres, or 73 per cent. of the cropped are, and spring crops only 370,000 acres, or 27 per cent.