Question

Collect the information on different seasons of agriculture in India. with pictures​

Answer 1

India has three cropping seasons —

rabi, kharif and zaid.

Rabi crops are sown in winter from October

to December and harvested in summer from

April to June. Some of the important rabi crops

are wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard.

Kharif crops are grown with the onset of

monsoon in different parts of the country and

these are harvested in September-October.

Important crops grown during this season are

paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong,

urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean.

In between the rabi and the kharif seasons,

there is a short season during the summer

months known as the Zaid season. Some of

the crops produced during ‘zaid’ are

watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber.