describe the different crop seasons in india
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Rabi-winter crop
Kharif -monsoon crop
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answered Mar 28, 2018 by nikita74 (-1,044 points)
Rabi season:
. Crops sown in winters and harvested in summers.
. Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard.
. States growing rabi crops are: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Kharif season:
. Crops grown with the onset of monsoons and harvested in September or October.
. Important Kharif growing states are: Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra.
. Crops grown during this season are: rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean
Zaid season:
. It falls in between the rabi and kharif seasons.
. It’s a short season during the summer months.
. Major crops grown are: watermelon, muskmelon, cucumbers, vegetables and fodder crops.