“Wheat and rice farming in India are fairly different from each othe

“Wheat and rice farming in India are fairly different from each other.” Support the statement with five suitable examples.

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Wheat	Rice
(a) It is a rabi crop and a temperate crop.	(a) It is a kharif crop and a tropical crop.
(b) It requires about 10–15°C temperature and a rainfall of 60–75 cms.	(b) It requires more than 25°C temperature, high humidity with annual rainfall of above 100 cms.
(c) It requires well drained fertile soil.	(c) It requires fertile alluvial soil with a clayey layer above.
(d) Leading producers are Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.	(d) Leading producers are West Bengal, Kerala and Punjab.
(e) It does not require much of labour.	(e) It requires cheap labour for transplantation.