explain any two cash crops
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Coffee, cocoa, tea, sugarcane, cotton, and spices are some examples of cash crops.
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A cash crop is the one that is cultivated to be sold in the market to earn profits from the sale.
Most of the crops grown today worldwide are cash crops cultivated for selling in the national and international markets.
Most of the cash crops grown in the developing nations are sold to the developed nations for a better price.
Well-known cash crops include coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton, and sugarcane.
1. Sugarcane
Geographical Conditions of Growth:
It is a tropical as well as sub-tropical crop.
Sugarcane in North India is of the sub-tropical variety and has low sugar content. Also sugar factories have to remain shut in winter seasons in North India. Also, sugarcane juice begins to dry up because of the long dry season in north India.
Sugarcane in South India is of the tropical variety and high sugar content and high yield.
It grows well in hot and humid climate with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and an annual rainfall of 75-100cm.
Medium and heavy soils where irrigation facilities are available are ideal for its cultivation.
It can be grown on a variety of soils and needs manual labour from the time of sowing to harvesting.
It is a long maturing crop planted between February and April. Harvesting begins in October and November.
It is a soil-exhausting crop and thus needs regular application of manure or fertilisers.
2. Cotton
India is believed to be the original home of the cotton plant.
It is also one of the most important industrial crops of India.
Geographical Conditions of Growth:
Cotton grows well in the drier parts of the black cotton soil of the Deccan plateau. It can also be grown on alluvial and red soils.
It requires high temperature (20-35°C), light rainfall (50 to 80cm) or irrigation, 210 frost free days and bright sunshine for its growth. Clear sky during the picking season is ideal.
It is a Kharif crop and requires 6-8 months to mature.
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