Tag: farming in india

Rabi crops are sown in winter from october to december and harvested in summer from april to june while khrarif crops are grown in monsoon and harvested in september to october.

The Maharashtra Government has introduced a new scheme to help the landless labourers among the Scheduled Castes (SCs) to acquire agricultural land. The landless among the SCs can now purchase four acres of rainfed agricultural land or two acres of irrigated land by paying only 5% of the cost. The rest up to Rs 8 lakh will be borne by the state government. This is a modified scheme as the earlier Dadasaheb Gaikwad empowerment of scheduled caste landless labourers scheme was providing 50% subsidy and was found inadequate and benefited only about five thousand landless labourers from SCs in the State so far. 

In some states like Bihar maize is grown in rabi season also. Use of modern inputs such as HYV seeds, fertilizers and irrigation have contributed to the increased production of maize. Other major maize-producing states are Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. 

Co-operative farming implies pooling together of the scattered and uneconomic holdings of land and their joint management. There are four types of cooperative farming societies which are described in the following paragraphs. They are: (1) better farming society, (2) tenant farming society, (3) joint farming society, and (4) collective farming society.

Its features include: 

• Each member-farmer remains the owner of his land individually.
  
• But farming is done jointly.
  
• Profit is distributed among the member-farmers in the ratio of land owned by them.
  
• All the above options except ‘D’ are applicable. There is no such rule that co operative farming is under the control of the government.
  

Indian agriculture is largely dominated by food crops which occupy 65% of the total cropped area of the country. They contribute about 50% of the total value of agricultural production. They are grown throughout the country either as a sole crop or in combination with other crops.

• India is the largest producer as well as the consumer of pulses in the world and accounts for about one-fifth of the total production of pulses in the world.
  
• Madhya Pradesh is India’s largest pulse producing state, which accounts for 23% of total pulse production in the country.
  
• The top five pulse producing states are Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
  

• Descending order of the largest agricultural imports of India the largest agricultural imports of India are as follows Edible vegetable oil followed by Wood and its products and then pulses.
  
• Total import of edible oils are 127.31 lakh tons in the year 2014-2015
  
• Total import of wood and wood products recorded as high as 2707.68 USD million in 2012.
  
• Though pulses are grown in large amounts in India, it had to be imported due to population demands. Production of pulses in 2012 is 175.20 million tons and its import is 16.74 million tons.
  

Madhya Pradesh outperformed all states and emerged as India’s Soy State. Madhya Pradesh has 45% share in soyabean production in the country. Hoshangabad, Indore, Betul, Ujjain and Dewas are some of the Soy districts of that state. Soya bean is also called Golden bean which is a species of legume.

In India wheat is mostly grown in the Great Plains during the cold weather season. The winter rain occurring in northern India is beneficial for this crop. It occurs due to western cyclonic disturbances over the Mediterranean sea.

• Slash and Burn farming is a type of agriculture where the forest trees are cut and burned by farmers to create favorable soil and conditions for crop cultivation.
  
• After 2 to 3 years, the land is left fallow due to its reduced fertility and farmers move to new regions and continue slash and burn farming.
• It is also known as Shifting cultivation.