Consider the following statements : 1. India has more arable area than China. 2. The proportion of irrigated area is more in India as compared to China. 3. The average productivity per hectare in Indian agriculture is higher than that in China. How many of the above statements are correct?

Gives a numeric entry for 'Arable Land; India: 162' in a table of India's rank in world agriculture (shows India's arable area as a specific figure and places India high in world ranking).

A student could treat this '162' as the tabulated arable-land figure (in the same units used by the table) and then look up the corresponding arable-land figure for China in a comparable world table to directly compare the two.

Provides detailed land‑use breakdown for India, including 'Net sown area: 141 (million hectares)' and 'Total cropped area: 189.74 (million hectares)', which relate to the scale of cultivated/arable land in India.

Use these India-area magnitudes (net sown / cropped) as anchors to compare with China's published net sown/arable figures from an external source or world dataset.

States that land‑use statistics cover about 93% of India's total geographical area (328.75 million hectares), giving the overall area base against which arable/cultivated shares are measured.

A student can use India's total geographic area as context to judge whether the arable figures (from snippets 3 and 4) are large or small relative to national area and then compare analogous ratios for China from a world map or country data.

Gives per‑capita agricultural land for India (~0.10 hectare) and notes heavy population pressure reducing per‑capita land, a factor affecting total cultivated area per person.

Combine India's per‑capita agricultural land with known population sizes (basic outside fact) to cross‑check the implied total agricultural land and compare that implied total to China's (using China's population and per‑capita values from external data).

States India's total geographical area (3.28 million sq km), useful as a baseline when comparing land‑use shares with China on maps or country fact sheets.

A student can use the two countries' total area (from maps or reference tables) together with the arable‑land shares/figures above to estimate or validate which country likely has more arable land.

Gives a clear recent figure for India's Net Irrigated Area: around 48.8% of Net Sown Area is irrigated (NIA ≈ 68.38 million ha).

A student can take this India percentage as a baseline and compare it to published Chinese irrigation statistics from external sources or atlases to judge which is higher.

Confirms the high share of irrigated area in India (mentions 48.79% figure and large irrigation water use), reinforcing the ~48–49% range.

Use this corroborating India figure to cross-check temporal or source differences before comparing with China.

Shows internal state-level extremes in India (Punjab ~95%, Haryana ~85%, UP ~87%), indicating that many Indian regions have very high irrigation coverage and that national average is shaped by such pockets.

A student can combine the national average with knowledge of China’s regional irrigation patterns (e.g., irrigated North China Plain vs less-irrigated plateaus) to assess plausibility of which country has higher percentage.

Provides an alternative (older or different-source) India estimate: 'a little less than 40% is irrigated', highlighting that estimates vary by date/definition.

Reminds a student to check the year and definition (Net Irrigated Area, cultivated area, etc.) when comparing India to China and to adjust comparisons accordingly.

Gives a comparative land-use statistic: about 55% of reporting area under cultivation in India versus about 12% in China (this is cultivated area, not irrigated area).

A student could combine this with external knowledge (e.g., China's larger total land area and different cropping/land-use patterns) to reason cautiously about why cultivated-area share differs from irrigated-area share and why direct comparison needs China-specific irrigation data.