Agriculture

____ of India’s population is engaged in agriculture.

2/3

Factors affecting primitive subsistence farming?

Monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown.

What is Dipa?

Primitive subsistence farming or slash and burn is called dipa in Bastar district of Chhattishgarh, and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Type of farming in high population areas?

Intensive subsistence farming

The _________ has an interface of agriculture and industry.

Plantation

Which crops are sown in winter? When are they sown and when are they harvested?

Rabi crops - October-December - April-June

Rabi crops examples?

Wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard

Kharif crops sown during which season? When harvested?

Monsoon - September-October

Kharif crops examples?

Paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean

Name the 3 paddy crops grown in WB, Assam and Odisha

Aus, Aman, Boro

When are zaid crops sown? exmaples?

Summer - watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops, sugarcane