Tag: agricultural seasons and 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.