A. Write a short note on the following topics.
1. Kharif season
2. Rabi season
3. Food crops
4. Cash crops
5. White revolution
6. Green revolution
7. Cottage industry
8. Large scale industry
Answers
Answer:
Kharif crops: They are grown in rainy season as they require a lot of water.
Rabi crops: They are grown in winter season as they can't tolerate a lot of water.
Food crops: They are the crops grown to suffice the requirements of food.
Cash crops: They are sold in the market for profit.
White revolution: It is the revolution related to milk.
Green revolution: It is the revolution related to agriculture, with the help of modern techniques.
Cottage industry: Small scale industry, where people manually make the goods.
Large scale industry: Industry where large number of people work together with help of machines and mass produce the goods.
Answer:
1)In India, the season is popularly considered to start in June and end in October. Kharif crops are usually sown at the beginning of the first rains during the advent of the south-west monsoon season, and they are harvested at the end of monsoon season (October–November).
2)The rabi crops are sown around mid-November, preferably after the monsoon rains are over, and harvesting begins in April / May.
3)Food crops are those crops that are grown for the purpose of consumption by humans. A few examples of food crops are paddy, maize and ragi. ... They are also known as 'cash crops'. A few examples of non-food crops are coconut, jute and tea.
4)Cash crops are agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit, as distinguished from subsistence crops planted for the purpose of self-supply of the farmer (like livestock feeding or food for the family).
5)Operation Flood is the program that led to “White Revolution.” It created a national milk grid linking producers throughout India to consumers in over 700 towns and cities and reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that producers get a major share of the profit by eliminating the middlemen
6)green revolution, great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century. Its early dramatic successes were in Mexico and the Indian subcontinent.
7)an industry whose labor force consists of family units or individuals working at home with their own equipment
8)Large scale industries are referred to as those industries that are having huge infrastructure, raw material, high manpower requirements and large capital requirements. Those organisations having a fixed asset of more than 10 crore rupees are considered to be large scale industries.