Mati is a village in

Sarojaninagar Sarojaninagar, also spelled Sarojini Nagar, is a community development block in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is part of the tehsil of Lucknow and it includes 90 villages. As of 2011, its population was 224,045, in 40,923 household ...

block of

Lucknow district Lucknow district is a district located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The city of Lucknow is the district headquarters and the district is part of Lucknow Division. It also is the capital of Uttar Pradesh Lucknow is Bounded on ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

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. As of 2011, its population was 5,833, in 1,071 households. A regular market is held here. It is the seat of a

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

Land use

The village lands cover an area of 1,172.3

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s, of which 724.6 (61.8%) are farmland as of 2011. Of the total cultivated area, 80.4% was

irrigated Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...

, all by well or tube well.

Fallow Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycl ...

lands covered an area of 72.9 hectares as of the same year, or 6.2% of the total land area. Lands under non-agricultural uses covered 295.4 hectares, or 25.2% of the total. Additionally, there was a forest cover of 75.1 hectares recorded in 2011, making up 6.4% of the total area.

References

Villages in Lucknow district {{Lucknow-geo-stub