Name the two major cropping seasons in India
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Cropping seasons of India :
Kharif & Rabi. The agricultural crop year in India is from July to June. The Indian cropping season is classified into two main seasons-(i) Kharif and (ii) Rabi based on the monsoon.
Answer:
There are three major cropping seasons in India .
They are :
1.Rabi.
2.Kharif.
3.Zaid .
Explanation:
Rabi season:
. Crops sown in winters and harvested in summers.
. Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley etc.
. States growing rabi crops are: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, and Uttar Pradesh etc.
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 etc.
. Crops grown during this season are: rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong, urad, cotton, jute etc.
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 etc.