This page tells you how much farmable land in each village around Dholera was sitting unused when the census looked, largest first. It matters because fallow land is farmland that somebody chose not to plant, and at this scale that choice usually says something about water or about who owns it.
The short version
Gogla recorded 3,238.26 hectares of current fallow, Bhangadh 3,125.22 and Hebatpur 1,480.20. Thirty villages recorded any current fallow at all. Long fallow and culturable waste are printed as columns rather than as their own pages, because they carry only 24 and 21 entries between them.
What this ranking is
This is the last time anybody counted these villages one by one and published the answer. The Census of India sent enumerators to every village in the country in 2011 and asked the same questions everywhere, which is what makes the answers comparable. The amenity questions were asked in 2009. That is old, and we say so on every figure, but it is the only complete, uniform and free record of what was on the ground before the industrial city arrived. If you want to understand what Dholera SIR was built on top of, this is the baseline.
None of this describes 2026. Roads have been built, land has changed hands and the expressway has opened since the surveyors came. Read it as the starting line, not the current score.
Which villages are in it. The 69 villages of Dhandhuka taluka, sub-district code 03787, plus the three Barwala taluka villages that appear on the Dholera development authority's own 22 village boundary map. Seventy two villages in all. Census 2011 has no Dholera taluka because Dholera taluka was only created in 2015, so the villages sit under the taluka names the Census used at the time.
What the numbers say
Three villages recorded more than a thousand hectares of farmland left unplanted. In a taluka this dry, fallow is usually a water decision rather than an ownership one, but the census does not record the reason and neither will we.
The highest figure is 3,238.26 hectares and the lowest is 1 hectares. The middle village of the ranking sits at 65.47 hectares.
The full ranking, all 30 villages
| # | Village | Current fallow (ha) | Long fallow (ha) | Culturable waste (ha) | Boundary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gogla | 3,238.26 | 0.00 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 2 | Bhangadh | 3,125.22 | 829.46 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 3 | Hebatpur | 1,480.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 4 | Ambli | 1,291.77 | 152.75 | 1,066.26 | In the SIR |
| 5 | Rahtalav | 640.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 6 | Gamph | 500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 7 | Mingalpur | 408.48 | 0.00 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 8 | Bhadiyad | 366.70 | 0.00 | 13.12 | In the SIR |
| 9 | Sodhi | 345.40 | 0.00 | 456.36 | In the SIR |
| 10 | Buranpur | 116.40 | 1,239.04 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 11 | Mundi | 116.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | In the SIR |
| 12 | Rojka | 112.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 13 | Akru | 98.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 14 | Tagadi | 74.54 | 37.84 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 15 | Rayka | 67.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 16 | Ratanpur | 63.89 | 0.00 | 42.83 | Outside |
| 17 | Kamatalav | 44.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 18 | Padana | 38.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 19 | Kharad | 35.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 20 | Bhalgamda | 35.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 21 | Chhasiyana | 33.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 22 | Sarwal | 32.00 | 19.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 23 | Jaliya | 31.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 24 | Galsana | 29.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 25 | Khadol | 27.73 | 0.00 | 6.72 | Outside |
| 26 | Fattepur | 19.59 | 0.20 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 27 | Morasiya | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 28 | Jaska | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 29 | Salasar | 5.40 | 5.40 | 0.00 | Outside |
| 30 | Chharodiya | 1.00 | 36.42 | 0.00 | Outside |
Census of India 2011, village directory. The amenity questions were surveyed in 2009. These are not current conditions and this site never presents them as current conditions.
The entry count shown in the table is for the current fallow column. Long fallow carries 24 entries and culturable waste 21, which is why all three share this page.
How to use this without being misled
Large fallow areas are worth noticing when a seller describes land as productive farmland. The census counted what was actually sown, and the gap between total area and net sown area is public for every village here. Our land area ranking prints both columns side by side.
Sources
- Census of India 2011, Village Directory for Ahmadabad district, Gujarat, published by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. censusindia.gov.in catalogue 405. Local extract: 72 village records, 396 columns, taken 4 August 2026. Status: OFFICIAL.
Every figure on this page was computed at build time from the extract named above, not typed in by hand. Where the source records nothing, the cell reads UNKNOWN rather than a guess. We do not sell land and nobody can pay to change a position in any list here.
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