Question
Distinguish between the rabi and kharif crops.

Answer

S.No.
Rabi crops
Kharif Crops
(i)
These crops are sown in winter from October to December and harvested in summer from April to June.
These crops are grown with the onset of monsoon and harvested in September-October.
(ii)
Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard.
Some of the important kharif crops are rice (paddy), maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean.
(iii)
Some of the most important rabi regions are north and north western states such as Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Some of the most important kharif regions are Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, the Konkan coast, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
(iv)
These crops require low temperature.
These crops require high temperature.
(v)
These crops require less rainfall.
These crops require high rainfall.

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