1.Distinguish between rabi and kharif season?
| Rabi | Kharif |
| a) Rabi crops are sown in winter from October to December and harvested in summer from April to June | a) Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in the different parts of the country and these are harvested in September-October. |
| b) Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram, and mustard. | b) Important crops grown during this season are paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, tur(arhar)moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean. |
| c) States from north and northwestern parts such as Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh are important for the production of wheat and other rabi crops | c) Some of the most important rice-growing regions are Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra, particularly the(Kankan coast) along with Uttar Pradesh Bihar. Recently, paddy has also become an important crop of Punjab and Haryana |
