What is a crop? Explain in what are seasonal crops?
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a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable is called a crop. The Kharif (autumn) and Rabi (spring) harvests are the two vitally important crop seasons of India, although as many as 4/5 crops are raised in coastal Kerala and some irrigated areas. Kharif is the monsoon crop, sown soon after the onset of rain (June-July) and harvested in autumn: rice, jowar, bajra, maize, cotton and jute are the principal crops. The Rabi sowing takes place in October-December and harvesting in April-May. The important crops raised during this season are wheat, gram barley, peas, rabi, pulses, linseed, rape, boro paddy, and mustard. In the southern half of the peninsula, where temperatures are sufficiently high and rains occur in winter season, the above classification is blurred. Rice jowar and cotton are grown there continuously. Due to excessive rainfall wheat does not grow in Kerala but other rabi crops grow. Sugarcane, being 10-18 month’s crop, is neither kharif nor rabi and so also is the short duration vegetables which are grown throughout the year with manure and irrigation.
The meaning of crop is -
Various plants that are grown or cultivated on farms as food items are called or termed as crops.
Examples of some crops includes : Vegetables, fruits and cereals.
SEASONAL CROPS :
The crops that grows or are cultivated depending upon the prevailing season are termed as seasonal crops.
There are mainly 2 kinds of seasonal crops. These are -
Rabi Crops
Such crops are cultivated at the finishing of the monsoon season, that is, in between September and October.
Examples : Wheat and Peas.
Kharif Crops
These are the kind of crops which are grown at the starting of rainy season which is between April and May.
Examples : Rice and Bajra.