 Whereas there is a decrease in the cropping area by 5.3 lakh hectors of the rice growing areas of West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh due to drought during 2010.The same has been the case with the cropping areas under coarse cereals which decreased by 3.42 lakh hectors, but in the case of pulses the cropping area has gone up by 6.11 lakh hectors in 2010 which seems to be quite good.The total area under food grains has decreased by 2.71 lakh hectors.