Agriculture

Major crops

• Various types of crops and food grow in different parts of a country depending on-Soil, Climate and cultivation practices.
• Major crops grown in india are-rice, wheat, millets, pulses, tea, cofee, sugarcane, oil seeds, cotton and jute

rice

India is the second largest producer of rice in the world after china.

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• It is a staple food crop used by the majority of the people in india
• Its a kharif crop- requires high temprature and humidity with anual rainfall above 100cm.
• In areas with less rainfall- grows with the help of irrigation.

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• Rice is grown in- plains of north and north-eastern India, Coastal areas and the Deltaic regions.
• Irrigation and tubewells made it possible to grow rice in areas of less rainfall- Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan.

wheat

It is the second most important cereal crop and the main food crop in north and north-western part of the country.

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• It is a Rabi crop- requires cool growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
• Requires 50 to 75cm of annual rainfall.

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• Wheat growing zones- ganga-satluj plains in the northweat and black soil region of the deccan.
• Major wheat producing states : Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh.