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Main oilseeds produced in India include groundnut, mustard, coconut, sesasmum (til), soyabean, castor seeds, linseed, and sunflower

An agricultural produce which makes the profit in return of selling by grown of crops is known as commercial crop. The Crops are selling to other parties with the object of making the profit from the farming. It is used by the cultivator which grew crops for sale. Cotton, sugarcane, groundnut and tobacco are called commercial crops because they are mainly grown for sale.

Commercial farming is a farming in which an agricultural crop is grown for sale to return a profit. Commercial crop is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. Tobacco is an example of commercial farming. It is grown largely in semi-arid and rain-fed areas where the cultivation of alternative crops is economically unviable. India is the world’s 2nd largest producer of tobacco.

Commercial crops are the crops which are grown for the selling purpose. The most important commercial crop of India is Sugarcane. India has the largest area under sugarcane cultivation in the world. India is the world’s second largest producer of sugarcane next only to Brazil. Sugarcane belongs to bamboo family of plants and is indigenous to India. It is the main source of sugar, gur and khandsari. It also provides raw material for manufacturing alcohol.

Karnataka is the second Leading producer of tobacco, while Andhra Pradesh is the leading producer of tobacco.

India introduced cultivation of Tobacco, tapioca,pineapple from Pacific Islands.

Cash crops are those which are primarily grown for sale and not for use by the grower and his family. The cash crops provide raw material to the agro-based industries. They provide money  to the farmers not only to improve their living conditions, but also to improve their farming practices.

• It is the largest and the most important multipurpose project named after the two dams built at Bhakraand Nangal on the Satluj River.
  
• It is a joint venture of the Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan states designed to harness the precious water of the Satluj for the benefit of the concerned states.
  
• The project comprises of (i) two dams at Bhakra and Nangal, (ii) Nangal Hydel Channel, (iii) power houses with a combined installed capacity of 1,204 megawatt (M.W.) (iv) Electric transmission lines and (v) Bhakra canal system for irrigation.
  
• The Bhakra Dam is one of the highest straight gravity dams in the world. It has been constructed on the Satluj at the site of Bhakra gorge near Rupnagar (Ropar). The dam is 226 metre high and 518 metres long with its maximum width at the base as 362 metres.
  
• The dam has created a huge reservoir of water which is 88 km long and 8 km wide with a storage capacity of 986.8 crore cubic metres. 
  
• The Nangal Dam has been constructed at Nangal about 13 km downstream of the Bhakra dam. This 29 metre high, 305 metre long and 121 metre wide is an auxiliary dam which serves as a balancing reservoir for taking up daily fluctuations from the Bhakra Dam.
  

• The Punjab-Haryana Plains owe their origin to the aggradational activity of the Satluj, the Beas and the Ravi rivers. 
  
• They extend for 640 km from north-east to south-west and 300 km from west to east covering an area of about 1.75 lakh sq. km.
  
• The northern part of the region, adjoining the Siwaliks, has witnessed inten­sive erosion through numerous small streams called Chos.