Bidar taluka is one of the eight talukas of Bidar district. Its administrative headquarters is in the town of Bidar, along with the district's headquarters. The major river is the Manjira which forms the northern border of the taluka. As of 2008, 611 square kilometres (150,981 acres) of the land was under cultivation in the taluka, of that 19% or 118 square kilometres (29,158 acres) was irrigated. Irrigation is 52% from dug wells, 44% from bore holes, and the rest from is mostly from tanks (reservoir ponds) and lift irrigation from the Manjira.