Chinawal is a village in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state, India, in the foothills of the Satpura range with a generally hot and dry climate.

[citation needed] Chinawal village is located at 21°11′46″N 75°55′36″E / 21.1962°N 75.9267°E / 21.1962; 75.9267 in Raver tahsil and Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state of India.

[2] It is situated at the foothills of Satpura range which is in the north-east region of Deccan Traps and Khandesh.

[3] Such volcanic ash rich soil is well-suited for the cultivation of cotton and banana crops.

[4][5] Naturally occurring neem trees are often grown in controlled way for the shade in hot summer.

Landscape of Chinawal village, street sides and borders of the farm lands are chiefly dotted with these neem trees.

[9] In 2012, Jalgaon district health officials declared water from 36 villages as 'unsafe for drinking', which included drinking water sampled from Chinawal, due to general unhygienic conditions in and around villages which included mixing of the animal and human waste in the drinking water supply chain for reasons including lack of cleanliness and open defecation, excessive use of fertilizers on the farms.

Under this scheme, people receive free treatment in the selected hospitals at district places for 975 types of diseases and surgeries and govt bears cost of it up to Rs.1,50,000 per year per family.

Its property is the cause of dispute between Shri Ram Mandir Charitable Trust Chinawal and some villagers.

[30] Chinawal village and Jalgaon district are known for banana production, but this wasn't always the case.

The 16th century Ain-i-Akbari written by Abul Fazl discusses the economy of the Khandesh region in detail, but does not mention banana cultivation[31] It is not known with certainty when banana cultivation started in the Jalgaon district, but the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency (Vol II, Book IV, Part II, Page 176) written in 1880 made the following observation regarding banana cultivation in the Khandesh: The Plantain, kel, Musa paradisiaca, is widely grown wherever water is plentiful and easily raised.

The fruit, though thinner skinned and somewhat better flavoured than the common plantain, is less suitable for cooking, and being a light cropper and wanting much water, is but sparingly cultivated.

The common three-cornered plantain, the taperi of Gujarat, the monde of Madras, and the gulur bale of Mysor, is easily grown and yields freely.

Page 229 of the British gazette made the following observation: The chief hand-woven cloth goods are [...] floor cloths, cotton sheets, stamped dirty-red coverlets, smaller sheets and cushions, from Nandurbar, Shahada, Varsi, Betavad, Sindkheda, Chopda, Jalgaon, Jamner, Faizpur, and Chinaval.The master weaver was used to supply yarn to handloom weavers in the Chinawal village and used to take ready clothes from the villagers to sell in weekly bazaars, shops, and fairs.

The gazette made the following observation regarding the life of handloom weavers: They are paid on an average from 3d.

Both men and women weave, keeping not more than thirty holidays in the year, and working, except for about an hour's rest at noon, from morning to night, so long as they have light to see.The gazette also noted that the textile machinery introduced by the Europeans in the Indian market had resulted in unequal competition and consequently villagers were losing their livelihood.

Because of awareness programmes run by the farmer Vasantrao Mahajan, social worker Digambar Narkheda and Jain Irrigation Systems, farmers have started using agronomic practices, soil testing, drip irrigation, and fertigation to conserve water and increase productivity.

These modern methods of cultivation were noted by a team of agriculture officers from the government of Kerala who visited Chinawal village in June 2004.

[30][35] This heavy production of bananas, including that from Chinawal village, is exported to north India by trucks and railway.

[44] All farmers of the Chinawal village cannot afford to buy modern agricultural machinery.

A bazaar is periodically held in Chinawal where small traders sell various commodities at negotiable rates.

All the direct and indirect expenses of students, like textbooks, uniforms, and transportation are borne by the government.

Primary education through English language medium is provided by the Nutan Prathamik Vidya Mandir school.

[59] Shikshan Prasarak Mandal has recently started an industrial training institute at Chinawal.

On 11 April 2011 at around 9 am, masked robbers with handguns robbed the Central Bank of India in Chinawal.

[63][21] In June 2010, a poster of Babasaheb Ambedkar was torn and in a subsequent riot, four police constables and two villagers were injured.

[64] In September 2002, a minor riot broke out between the two communities[further explanation needed] of the village during the Ganesh visarjan procession, but no serious injuries or death were reported.