Question

Carefully study the given picture and answer the following questions :
(i) Identify the crop.
(ii) During which cropping season the crop is grown?
(iii)State the climatic conditions required for its cultivation.​

Answer 1

(i) The crop shown in the picture is paddy or rice, the main staple foodgrain for majority of the people in India.

(ii) The climatic conditions required for cultivation of rice are as follows :

Rice is a Kharif crop and requires hot and humid climate for cultivation. Temperature above 25°C, and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm are favourable for cultivation of rice.

Rice requires sufficient rainfall and flooded fields during the earlier part of its growing season in June-July. It needs plenty of sunshine.

(iii) Two major regions of rice production are :

(a) The Ganga-Brahmaputra Plains of north and northeastern India comprising West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

(b) Coastal areas and deltaic regions with alluvial soil like Orissa, and parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Answer 2

i) Paddy

ii) Monsoon season

iii) It requires adequate rainfall to grow paddy.

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