hacking geography Flashcards
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agriculture importance
16-18% total industrial production largest employer with 50+ million exports and earns forex of 11.9% produces raw material for various industries
factors which influence farming
physical factors (terrain, climate water avalibility etc) and technological know how and socio cultural practices
Odisha shifting agriculture
pama Dabi koman bringa
shifting agriculture in Chattisgarh and Manipur
Dipa and pamlou
commercial farming purpose
sale and trade
plantation type of farming, purpose
commercial, cash crops for trade, interface of agriculture and industry, used as raw material, single crop over large tracts of land, well developed network of transport and communication
difference between primitive and intestive
modern tools vs primitive, high output vs low output, high populations vs rural areas
kharif crops and Rabi crops
maize cotton, jowar, pulses, groundnut, soybean————wheat, barely, gram, mustard, peas, oats
Zaid crops, examples
short season during summer months, watermelon muskmelon, cucumber
3 types of rice grown in india
aus(assam) aman(wb) boro(o)
rice climatic conditions
kharif, hot and humid crop, 25c, 100cm+, alluvial soil of valleys and terraces, first staple food crop
rice places
bengal, Odisha, assam, ap, telengana
second most important crop climatic conditions
main food crop for north and nw, Rabi season, cool growing season with bright sunshine at time of ripening, rainfall of 50-75cm 10c-25c
wheat soil
well drained alluvial soils and black soil of mp mh
main millets and features
jowar bajra ragi, coarse grained with high nutritional values, can grow in extreme dry climatic conditions-low value crops
ragi nutritional value and places, soil
calcium iron roughage and other micronutrients, ATOM(Arunachal Pradesh, tn, Odisha, maharshatra), loamy sandy red black shallow soil
bajra soil and places
sandy soil and shallow black soil, Haryana Gujarat
jowar crop
rain fed grown in moist areas, THIRD Most important crop, maharashtra, Karnataka
maize
kharif, fodder and food 21c-27c, old alluvial soil, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh
pulses plant functions and exception, climatic conditions and places
leguminous plants, restore soil fertility, little rain and moisture, grow In areas of dry condition and areas uttarpradesh and Karnataka
sugarcane
kharif and annual crop india 2nd largest producer, hot and humid climate, 21-27 75-100cm, manual labour, Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, black and alluvial soil
oil seeds of kharif and rabi
groundnut and seasmum—mustard rapeseed
groundnut features
kharif crop occupies half of major oil seed production, Gujarat largest producer Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu
which crops grows in both in kharif and rabi
SESAMUM, kharif in north and rabi in south
