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Agriculture questions are soil and season questions with crop names attached.
Soil classes
- Alluvial covers about 43%: the food bowl, khadar new and bhangar old.
- Black regur: moisture-retentive, cotton and soybean.
- Red and laterite: leached, tea-coffee-cashew on hills; peaty, saline and forest soils fill the map.
Seasons and belts
- Kharif with the monsoon: rice, jute, bajra, cotton.
- Rabi on winter westerlies: wheat, mustard, gram; zaid is the summer gap: melons, fodder.
- Rice-wheat belt: Punjab-Haryana-west UP; millet drylands: Rajasthan-Karnataka plateau.
Irrigation and risk
- About half of net sown area is irrigated; groundwater dominates the north-west.
- Cropping intensity rises with irrigation; fallow cycles mark dryland Deccan.
Revise in 30 seconds
- Alluvial 43%; black = cotton; laterite = plantation crops.
- Kharif June-October, rabi October-March, zaid summer.
- Green Revolution belt: Punjab, Haryana, western UP.
Quick revision
- Alluvial covers about 43%: the food bowl, khadar new and bhangar old.
- Black regur: moisture-retentive, cotton and soybean.
- Red and laterite: leached, tea-coffee-cashew on hills; peaty, saline and forest soils fill the map.
- Kharif with the monsoon: rice, jute, bajra, cotton.
- Rabi on winter westerlies: wheat, mustard, gram; zaid is the summer gap: melons, fodder.
- Rice-wheat belt: Punjab-Haryana-west UP; millet drylands: Rajasthan-Karnataka plateau.
