Tag: agricultural seasons and crops

Paddy, also called rice paddy, small, level, flooded field used to cultivate rice in southern and eastern Asia. Wet-rice cultivation is the most prevalent method of farming in the Far East, where it utilizes a small fraction of the total land yet feeds the majority of the rural population.

'Sorghum vulgare' is the scientific name of Jowar

The Indian cropping season is classified into two main seasons- (i) Kharif and (ii) Rabi based on the monsoon. The kharif cropping season is from July –October during the south-west monsoon and the Rabi cropping season is from October-March (winter).

These are all kharif crops. Khrif season is also known as south west monsoon season. These are grown in monsoon and harvest in september- october. More important kharif crops are bajra, maize, paddy etc.

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.