write cropping pattern for the following crops ( rabi / kharif ) please give me the answer fast
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Two-thirds of India’s population is engaged in agricultural activities. It is a primary activity, which produces food grains and raw materials for industries. India is geographically a vast country so it has various food and non-food crops which are cultivated in three main cropping seasons which are rabi, kharif and zaid.
Major crops can be classified into-
Food crops- Rice, Wheat, Millets, Maize and Pulses.
Cash crops- Sugarcane, Oilseeds, Horticulture crops, Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cotton and Jute.
Cropping Seasons
S. No Cropping Season Time Period Crops States
1. Rabi Sown: October-December
Harvested: April-June Wheat, barley, peas, gram, mustard etc. Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh
2. Kharif Sown: June-July
Harvested: September-October Rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut, soybean etc. Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra
3. Zaid Sown and harvested: March-July
(between Rabi and Kharif) Seasonal fruits, vegetables, fodder crops etc. Most of the northern and northwestern states
Major Food Crops
Rice.