Explanation: The coarse cereals together occupy about 16.50 per cent of total cropped area in the country.

• Among these, jowar or sorghum alone accounts for about 5.3 per cent of total cropped area.
• It is main food crop in semi-arid areas of central and southern India.
• Maharashtra alone produces more than half of the total jowar production of the country.
• Other leading producer states of jowar are Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Source: NCERT