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    The document discusses different types of farming and major crops in India. It describes three types of farming: primitive subsistence, intensive subsistence, and commercial farming. It also outlines the three main crop seasons in India - Kharif, Rabi, and Zaid. Finally, it provides details on major food crops like rice, wheat, and millets as well as non-food crops like rubber, fiber crops, cotton, and jute.

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    The document discusses different types of farming and major crops in India. It describes three types of farming: primitive subsistence, intensive subsistence, and commercial farming. It also outlines the three main crop seasons in India - Kharif, Rabi, and Zaid. Finally, it provides details on major food crops like rice, wheat, and millets as well as non-food crops like rubber, fiber crops, cotton, and jute.

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    TYPES OF FARMING

    Primitive Subsistence Farming Intensive Subsistence Farming Commercial Farming

    Is practised on small patches It is practised in areas of high The main characteristics of the
    of land with the help of population pressure on land. type of farming are used of
    primitive tools like hoe, dao and It is labour intensive farming, higher doses of modern inputs,
    digging sticks and where high doses of e.g. high yielding variety (HYV)
    family/community. biochemical inputs and seeds, chemical fertilizers,
    It is a ‘slash and burn’ irrigation are used for obtaining insecticides and pesticides in
    agriculture. higher production. order to obtain higher
    productivity.

    THREE MAIN CROP SEASONS OF INDIA

    Kharif Rabi Zaid

    It starts with the onset of the It starts with the beginning of This is a short crop season in
    monsoon and continues till the winter and continues till the between the rabi and kharif
    beginning of winter (June-July beginning of summer (Oct-Dec season.
    to September-October). to April-June). Crops like watermelons,
    The Kharif crops include, rice, The rabi crops include wheat, cucumber, some vegetables
    maize, millet, cotton, jute, barley, gram and oilseeds. and fodder crops are the major
    groundnut, moong, urad, etc. crops.

    MAJOR CROPS OF INDIA

    RICE WHEAT MILLETS MAIZE PULSES


    It is the staple food It is the main food Jowar, Bajra and Rabi It is a crop which is India is the largest
    crop of a majority of crop in north and are the important used both as food and producer as well as
    the people in India. north-western part of millets grown in India. fodder. the consumer of
    It is a kharif crop the country. It is a main-fed crop It is a kharif crop pulses in the world.
    which requires high This rabi crop requires mostly grown in the which requires These are the major
    temperature and high a cool growing season moist areas which temperature between source of protein in
    humidity with annual and a bright sunshine hardly needs irrigation. 21°C to 27°C and vegetation diet.
    rainfall above 100 cm. at the time of ripening. Rabi is a crop of dry grows well in old Major pulses that are
    Rice is grown in the It requires 50 to 70 cm regions and grows alluvial soil. grown in India are tur,
    plains of north and of annual rainfall. well on red, black, Major maize urad, moong, masur,
    north-eastern India, There are two sandy, loamy and producing states are peas and gram.
    coastal areas and the important wheat shallow black soils. Karnataka, UP, Bihar, Pulses need less
    deltaic regions of growing zones in the Karnataka is the Andhra Pradesh and moisture and survive
    canal irrigation and country- the Ganga largest producer of Madhya Pradesh. even in dry
    tubewells have made Satluj plains in the ragi followed by Tamil conditions.
    it possible to grow rice north-west and black Nadu. Major pulses
    in areas of less rainfall soil region of the producing states in
    such as Punjab, Deccan. India are Madhya
    Haryana and Western The major wheat Pradesh, UP,
    U.P. and parts of producing states are Rajasthan,
    Rajasthan. Punjab, Haryana, UP, Maharashtra and
    Bihar, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
    parts of Madhya
    Pradesh.

    NON-FOOD CROPS

    Rubber Fibre Crops Cotton Jute


    It is an equatorial crop, Cotton, jute, hemp and Cotton grows well in It is also known as
    but under special natural silk are the drier parts of the black Golden fibre.
    conditions, it is also four major fibre crops cotton soil of the Jute grows well on
    grown in tropical and grown in India. Deccan plateau. well-drained fertile
    sub-tropical areas. The first three are It requires high soils in the flood
    It requires moist and derived from the crops temperature, light plains, where soils are
    humid climate with grown in the soil, the rainfall or irrigation, renewed every year.
    rainfall of more than latter is obtained from 210 frost-free days It requires high
    200 cm and cocoons of the and bright sunshine temperature.
    temperature above silkworms fed on for its growth. Major jute producing
    25°C. green leaves specially It is a kharif crop and states are Bihar,
    It is mainly grown in mulberry. requires 6-8 months to Assam, West Bengal,
    Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rearing of silk worms mature. Odisha, Meghalaya.
    Karnataka, and for the production of Cotton producing
    Andaman and Nicobar silk fibre is known as states are MP,
    Islands and Garo hills sericulture. Karnataka, Andhra
    in Meghalaya. Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
    Punjab, UP & Haryana.

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