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14. Name the three main cropping seasons in Indes. Explain their growing and harvestingperiods |
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Answer» Rabi season: 1.Crops sown in winters and harvested in summers.2. Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard.3. States growing rabi crops are: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Kharif season: 1. Crops grown with the onset of monsoons and harvested in September or October.2. Important Kharif growing states are: Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra.3. Crops grown during this season are: rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean. Zaid season: 1. It falls in between the rabi and kharif seasons.2. It’s a short season during the summer months.3. Major crops grown are: watermelon, muskmelon, cucumbers, vegetables and fodder crops. |
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