Bhojpur Son Valley Wheat Farming Ara

Bhojpur district on the Son river's northern bank is Bihar's wheat heartland, with the fertile Son alluvial plains supporting high-yield wheat cultivation of HD 2967 and PBW 343 varieties under canal and tubewell irrigation that produces some of the state's highest per-hectare yields. Bhojpur farmers use the Son canal irrigation network — one of British India's oldest canal systems dating to 1874 — to grow rabi wheat on over 60 percent of cultivated area, with surplus sold to the state procurement agency at MSP. The district has a strong tradition of progressive agriculture and was among Bihar's first districts to adopt green revolution varieties in the 1970s under IARI extension programmes.