which geographical conditions is required for growing wheat and rice ? write the state where they are grown
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(i) It is a Kharif crop which requires high temperature (above 25 °C). (ii) High humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm. (iii) In the areas of less rainfall, it grows with the help of irrigation. (iv) It is grown in the plains of north and north-eastern India, coastal areas and the deltaic regions.
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The geographical conditions required for the growth of rice are as follows:
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.
Major rice growing states :
West Bengal
Uttar Pradesh
Punjab
Odisha