The major GI Protected varieties of India are as follows: Navara Rice (Kerala) This rice variety is grown in Kerala and its cultivation. Palakkad in Kerala is the...
With regard to the cropping patterns, India has varied climatic regions and rice is grown in different patterns as discussed below: Rice-Rice-Rice Pattern Under this pattern, three rice...
Rice (Oryza sativa), a member of grass family (Poaceae) is a tropical plant associated with the wet and humid climate. It is an important staple food crop for...
Food Grains include rice, wheat, maize, coarse cereals and pulses. As per 3rd Advance Estimates, the estimated production of major food crops during 2016-17 is follows: Total Food grains – 273.38...
The cropping patterns may be affected by several factors and interplay of these factors. Some of these include physical and technical factors, economic factors, government agrarian policy, improvements...
Farming system represents the crops, cropping systems as well as other agriculture related enterprises such as animal husbandry, fisheries etc. for optimally utilization of the available resources and...
The Rice-wheat cropping system is India’s most widely adopted cropping system practiced on an estimated area of around 11 million hectares. This system is prevalent in Indo-Gangetic plains...
India is a land of multiplicity of cropping patterns and systems. In the previous section, we have already discussed about different types of cropping patterns. The cropping pattern...
Cropping pattern refers to proportion of area under different crops at different points of time. It also indicates the time and spatial arrangement or sequence of crops and...
Planning Commission was an advisory body, and so is Niti Ayog. But the key difference between them is that while the former had powers to allocate funds to...
