India: resources, agriculture, industry and transport
Cropping seasons and the geography of major crops
Practise 7 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Kharif (rice, cotton, groundnut, jowar, bajra, maize, soybean), rabi (wheat, gram, mustard, barley) and zaid crops
- Rice: hot humid, over 100 cm rain or irrigation, largest kharif area; wheat: cool rabi season, Punjab-Haryana-Uttar Pradesh
- Millets (jowar, bajra, ragi) and maize: rainfed, drought-tolerant, nutri-cereals
- Pulses (gram, tur or pigeon pea, moong or green gram, cowpea; pulse, fodder and green manure uses) and oilseeds (groundnut, sesamum, mustard, soybean; mostly rainfed)
- Cotton: subtropical, 210 frost-free days, 50 to 100 cm rain, light well-drained or black soil; jute: hot humid West Bengal and Assam
- Sugarcane: tropical to subtropical, water-intensive, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; its area and cotton's compared
- Plantation crops: tea (Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal, Tripura), coffee (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), rubber (Kerala), spices
- Horticulture and regional specialities: apple (Himachal, Kashmir), mango, areca nut (coastal Karnataka, Kerala), saffron
Where to study
India: People and Economy, Class XII, chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 3, Land Resources and Agriculture, p. 1-20 (book pages 21-40)
- ch. 3, Cropping Seasons in India, p. 5 (book page 25)
- ch. 3, Foodgrains, p. 6 (book page 26)
- ch. 3, Oilseeds, p. 10 (book page 30)
- ch. 3, Other Crops, p. 12 (book page 32)
Contemporary India II, Class X, chapter 4: Agriculture (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 4, Agriculture, p. 1-12 (book pages 30-41)
- ch. 4, Cropping Pattern, p. 3 (book page 32)
- ch. 4, Rice, p. 3-4 (book pages 32-33)
- ch. 4, Millets, p. 3-5 (book pages 32-34)
- ch. 4, Maize, p. 3-5 (book pages 32-34)
- ch. 4, Pulses, p. 3-7 (book pages 32-36)
- ch. 4, Cotton, p. 7-9 (book pages 36-38)
- ch. 4, Jute, p. 9 (book page 38)
- ch. 4, Sugarcane, p. 7 (book page 36)
- ch. 4, Tea, p. 7-8 (book pages 36-37)
- ch. 4, Coffee, p. 8 (book page 37)
- ch. 4, Horticulture, p. 8 (book page 37)
Geography of India · Majid Husain
- ch. 9, Agriculture