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Cropping Periods of the Year Main Crops Grown States
Seasons

• Showing time is from Wheat, barely, Punjab, Haryana,
October to December. peas, gram and Himachal Pradesh,
Rabi • The harvest take place mustard Jammu and Kashmir,

from April to June. Uttarakhand and Uttar
Pradesh

• Crops are grown with Paddy , Maize, Assam, West Bengal,
the onset of monsoon. Jowar, Bajra, tur coastal region of
• They are harvested ( arhar) , moong , Odisha, Andhra
Kharif from September to urad, cotton, jute, Pradesh, Telangana,

October. groundnut and Tamil Nadu, Kerala and
soyabean Maharashtra, Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar
• The zaid cropping watermelon, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh

season is a short period muskmelon, and so on
that falls between rabi cucumber,
Zaid and kharif seasons. vegetables and

• This season falls during fodder crops
the summer months.

The Green Revolution

The Green Revolution was launched in India in 1960. Under this the government

took several steps to increase agricultural output in India. These include:

• Using better quality seeds
• Increasing area under irrigation

• Using manures and fertilizers
• Using modern machinery such as tractors and harvesters.

As a result of this, our agriculture production has gone up several times.

Today we are not only self-sufficient in food production, but we also expert

agricultural products. However, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers has caused
great damage to the soil in some parts of India.

Industries in India

Look around your house. You can see several things–televisions, books, pens,
tables, utensils, clothes, sugar, etc. These are all finished goods. We can use these

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