I believe this will further reduce  7  The concentration curve (plotting cumulative percentage shares of different regions in total cropped area against cumulative percentage shares in the incremental agricultural credit towards the same regions during two time periods, viz., 1990–2000 and 2000–2010), indicates that the cropped area related inequality in the distribution of incremental agricultural credit favouring southern, western and northern regions marginally declined during the period 2000–2010 as compared to the period 1990–2000.
The data on state-wise total cropped area has been sourced from the online official data base of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The state-wise data on total cropped area was available for the year 2007–08. The analysis was carried out by making the assumption that the composition of total cropped area across states remained more or less the same during the 2000s.