District Profile
As per classification by Govt. of Jharkhand, Ramgarh is a part of Central and North Eastern Plateau. As per Classification of Govt. of India it lies under Agro-climatic Zone VII (Eastern Plateau & Hills) sub Zone 3. The soil of district are mainly coarse textured with crust formation on the surface of the soil, have low water retention capacity. Erratic and uneven distribution of rainfall, lack of safe disposal of runoff and drying of tanks are other major edaphic and climatic constraints.
The climate is generally dry with average rainfall 1344 mm. The temperature varies between 18 to 33 °C. Many a times, the temperature goes high up to 40°C-44°C. The fertile land comprises of red and yellow soil with some amount of sand. But most of the terrains are rocky covered with pebbles. This acts as check on fertility of soil.
Ramgarh district is fortunate in terms of development in both industry and agriculture sector. On an average about 58 percent of the total population belongs to the agricultural population while the non-agricultural sector accounts for the remaining 42 percent. On an average this district has 119% cropping intensity. Ramgarh District is well endowed with forest in an area of 487.93 Sq. km, which is 28.25% of total area. 3.86% of the total geographical area and 14.5% of the next cropped area is being irrigated. 75% of the agricultural land holding belongs to small and marginal farmers which have contributed to poor level of mechanized farm operations. The total area is 137602 ha in which net cultivated area of the district is 20667.32 ha. There are 6 blocks in the district covering 344 villages. Rice is the most important crop of the district. Paddy covers maximum of the gross cropped area. Among commercial crops, Cabbage, cauliflower and potato are major vegetables crops mostly in Gola block. Major cropping patterns include paddy-fellow, maize – potato, paddy – vegetable, sweet potato-vegetable. Gola and Chitarpur have maximum cropping intensity up to 260% but Dulmi is around up to 140%. Other block like Ramgarh, Patratu and mandu up to 85%.