Name the two most important cereal crops
grown in India. Describe the conditions
required to grow these two crops. [5]
Answers
Answer:Name the two most important cereal crops
grown in India. Describe the conditions
required to grow these two crops.
Explanation:
Answer:
Rice is one of the most important cereal crops
cereal cropsgrown in India.
i) It is a kharif crop which requires hot and humid climate for cultivation. Temperature (above 25°C) and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm are favourable for the growth of rice.
ii) Rich alluvial soils of the floodplains and deltaic areas which are renewed every year are ideal for rice cultivation.
iii) Rice requires abundant rainfall or good water supply through irrigation and flooded fields during the earlier part of its growing season in June-July.
Wheat is the second most important cereal crop grown in parts of the country.
This rabi crop requires a cool growing season and a bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
It requires 50 to 75 cms of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season.
There are two important wheat-growing zones in the country:
The Ganga-Satluj plains in the north-west.of the country.
The black soil of the Deccan Plateau.
The major wheat producing states are Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh.