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Major crops grown in India can be classified into four categories: 1) Food crops - Rice, wheat, maize, millets, and pulses which provide staple diets. 2) Cash crops - Cotton, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and oilseeds which are grown for commercial production. 3) Plantation crops - Tea, coffee, coconut, arecanut, and rubber. 4) Horticulture crops - Vegetables and fruits like onions, tomatoes, apples, and mangoes. Crops can also be classified based on their growing season into kharif/rainy crops, rabi/winter crops, and zaid/summer crops which are planted and

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Crop Table

Major crops grown in India can be classified into four categories: 1) Food crops - Rice, wheat, maize, millets, and pulses which provide staple diets. 2) Cash crops - Cotton, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and oilseeds which are grown for commercial production. 3) Plantation crops - Tea, coffee, coconut, arecanut, and rubber. 4) Horticulture crops - Vegetables and fruits like onions, tomatoes, apples, and mangoes. Crops can also be classified based on their growing season into kharif/rainy crops, rabi/winter crops, and zaid/summer crops which are planted and

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Major crops grown in India

Food Crops Rice, wheat, maize, millets — jowar, bajra, ragi; pulses — gram, tur (arhar) etc.
(cereals – grass like plants with starchy edible seeds having high nutritional
value)
Cash Crops Cotton, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, oilseeds, groundnut, linseed, sesamum, castor
seed, rapeseed, mustard, etc.
Plantation Crops Tea, coffee, coconut, arecanut, rubber and spices — cardamom, chillies, ginger,
turmeric etc.
Horticulture Vegetables — Onion, tomato, etc; and fruits — Apple, Orange, Mango, banana,
citrus fruits, etc..

Classification Based on growing season


Kharif/Rainy/Monsoon crops Rabi/winter/cold seasons crops Summer/Zaid crops
The crops grown in monsoon months The crops grown in winter season Crops grown in summer
Sown before monsoon and harvested Sown before retreating monsoon Sown and harvested in
at the end of the monsoon and harvested before summer. summer
June to Oct-Nov Oct to March March to June
Require warm, wet weather at major Crops grow well in cold and dry Require warm dry weather
period of crop growth weather for major growth period
E.g. Cotton, Rice, Jowar, Bajara etc. E.g. Wheat, gram, sunflower etc. E.g. Groundnuts,
Watermelon, Pumpkins,
Gourds etc.

 
FOOD CROPS
RICE-K 25C 100- ALLUVIA ABO JCG AT 2ND
200 L
CM
WHEAT-R 20-25 50-75 Alluvial PHRUP MP B
c CM
PULSES- MP R UP MH 1/5th of
KAR world.

MILLETS 27- 50- SANDY largest


32°C 100 BLACK producer
include SOILsoil
jawar,
bajara, ragi
etc
MAIZE- K Old alluvial KARNATAKA

food as 21-
well as 27C
fodder

JAWAR 30 - Maharashtra
50
high CM
nutritional
value
BAJRA 40-50 Sandy soil Rajasthan
cm
REGI KARNATAK
A
CASH CROPS
T R S D P
COTTON 21- 50-100 Well drained Gujarat
30°C cm deep black Maharashtra
soils (regur- MP
lava soil) 

JUTE 30c 150 WB, Bihar,


cm  Assam, AP
90 % O
HUM
OILSEEDS 15- 30-75 Loamy sandy
Groundnut, 30°C cleyry
rapeseed
Sunflower
soyabean
PLANTATION CROPS
TEA 20-30°C 150-300 Deep and Assam fourth
cm fertile largest
well-
drained
soil,
COFFEE 15-28°C 160- 250 Well Western
150-250 cm drained, Ghats in
deep Karnataka,
friable Kerala and
. loam soil Tamil
Nadu.
Karnataka 

RUBBER (25°- 200cm laterite Kerala TN


35°C) and
lateritic
soils.
SUGARCANE 21-27°C 75-100 Deep rich UP MAH largest
loamy soil TN AP sugarcane
producer 

https://onlyias.com/agriculture/

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